http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/441 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-05-14 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120514 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Community Groups Growing Source of Web Innovation 09 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9445 [] W3C announced today that eight months after the launch of Community Groups to speed Web innovation, more than 1200 people are participating in 80 groups with wide-ranging interests, including mobile profiles, Web games, and big data. "We wanted to encourage richer and more diverse conversations about Web technology at W3C, and we are off to a great start," said Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. "A number of design choices (such as the permissive copyright license) have made this an appealing work environment to important stakeholders. The program is young but promising, and will continue to improve as we learn from our community." http://www.w3.org/community/ http://www.w3.org/2011/08/cg-pr http://www.w3.org/community/ http://www.w3.org/community/groups/ http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/ http://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/summary/ The W3C Membership, which convenes next week at its semi-annual meeting, plays a preeminent role both in Community Groups and in turning innovations into interoperable, Royalty-Free Web standards through an open consensus process. Open Web Platform traction has resulted in more than 80 organizations becoming W3C Members in the past year. Read the full press release and testimonials from some new W3C Members and learn more about W3C Community and Business Groups. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List http://www.w3.org/2012/04/membership2012.html.en http://www.w3.org/2012/04/membership2012-testimonials http://www.w3.org/community/about/ W3C Invites Implementations of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 10 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9449 The Multimodal Interaction Working Group. has published a Candidate Recommendation of "Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0." As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including emotions. The specification of Emotion Markup Language 1.0 aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and scientific well-foundedness. The language is conceived as a "plug-in" language suitable for use in three different areas: (1) manual annotation of data; (2) automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user behavior; and (3) generation of emotion-related system behavior. http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-emotionml-20120510/ The group also published "Vocabularies for EmotionML," a Working Group Note. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-emotion-voc-20120510/ Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity Registration for W3C Online Course on Programming Mobile Web Apps; Early Bird Rate through 25 May 10 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9448 W3C is pleased to announce that registration is open for a new edition of the W3C online course "Mobile Web 2: Programming Web Applications". Developed by the W3C/MobiWebApp team and taught by Marcos Caceres, this course gives developers all the tools and knowledge necessary to write mobile Web applications that can ship both online and in application stores, using today's advanced technologies. The 6-week course begins 11 June. An early bird rate of 195 Euros is available until 25 May; after that date the full price is 225 Euros so register now. http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=21 http://www.w3devcampus.com/writing-great-web-applications-for-m obile/ http://www.mobiwebapp.eu/ http://www.w3devcampus.com/marcos-caceres/ http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=21 Call for Review: Geolocation API Specification Proposed Recommendation Published 10 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9450 The Geolocation Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Geolocation API Specification." This specification defines an API that provides scripted access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device. Comments are welcome through 10 June. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-geolocation-API-20120510/ http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ W3C Launches Linked Data Platform Working Group 09 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9446 [] Today W3C launched the new Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group to promote the use of linked data on the Web. Per its charter, the group will explain how to use a core set of services and technologies to build powerful applications capable of integrating public data, secured enterprise data, and personal data. The platform will be based on proven Web technologies including HTTP for transport, and RDF and other Semantic Web standards for data integration and reuse. The group will produce supporting materials, such as a description of uses cases, a list of requirements, and a test suite and/or validation tools to help ensure interoperability and correct implementation. Learn more about the Semantic Web. http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/ http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/ http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/charter http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ W3C Invites Implementations of Battery Status API; Vibration API 08 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9444 The Device APIs Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendations of "Battery Status API" and "Vibration API." The first defines an API that provides information about the battery status of the hosting device. The second defines an API that provides access to the vibration mechanism of the hosting device. W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to indicate that the document is believed to be stable and to encourage implementation by the developer community. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-battery-status-20120508/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-vibration-20120508/ http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ Last Call: Performance Timeline; User Timing 08 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9443 The Web Performance Working Group has published two Last Call Working Drafts: "Performance Timeline" and "User Timing." The first defines an unified interface to store and retrieve performance metric data. The second defines an interface to help web developers measure the performance of their applications by giving them access to high precision timestamps. Comments are welcome through 07 June. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-performance-timeline-20120508/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-user-timing-20120508/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Three RDFa Specifications are Proposed Recommendations 08 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9442 The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Proposed Recommendations for "RDFa Core 1.1," "RDFa Lite 1.1" and "XHTML+RDFa 1.1." http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-rdfa-core-20120508/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-rdfa-lite-20120508/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-xhtml-rdfa-20120508/ Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa Core 1.1 specifies the core syntax and processing rules for RDFa 1.1 and how the language is intended to be used in XML documents. RDFa Lite 1.1 provides a simple subset of RDFa for novice web authors. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 specifies the usage of RDFa in the XHTML markup language. The group also published a draft of the "RDFa 1.1 Primer" today. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-rdfa-primer-20120508/ Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) – 2012-06-13 (13 JUN) Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dub lin-cfp Dublin, Ireland Hosted by Trinity College Dublin, with funding by the European Commission * 2012-06-14 (14 JUN) – 2012-06-15 (15 JUN) W3C Workshop on Web-Based Signage http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/cfp Tokyo (Chiba), Japan Hosted by NTT The Web is at a turning point with the emergence of the Open Web Platform, the set of technologies used to create highly interactive experiences and social apps on a broad range of devices. W3C has helped foster the deployment of Web technology on mobile devices and, for the past two years, has made the convergence of Web and TV a priority (see the Web and TV Interest Group). We now see an opportunity to extend the Web to a new class of devices: very large digital displays. We invite operators of consumer electronics companies, digital signage platforms, advertisers, browser vendors, sign owners, and others to participate in this discussion. * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN) Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Brussels, Belgium Hosted by the European Commission For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? W3C Blog * Events on interoperability for mobile Web, Paris May 29-31 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/05/events_on_interoperability_for 10 May 2012 by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-05-15 (15 MAY) Upgrade Your Website to HTML5 http://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2012/Sessions/Tuesday/T07 -Upgrade-Your-Website-to-HTML5.aspx by Rajesh Lal Visual Studio Live http://vslive.com/home.aspx Brooklyn, New York, USA * 2012-05-15 (15 MAY) BAD: Before and After Demonstration by Shadi Abou-Zahra AccessU Summit http://environmentsforhumans.com/2012/accessu-summit/ Web, n/a * 2012-05-24 (24 MAY) Web panel panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Adobe Creative Week http://www.adobelive.fr/journee/web-gaming/ Paris, France * 2012-05-26 (26 MAY) CSS : hier, aujourd’hui et demain http://sudweb.fr/2012/talk/css-hier-aujourdhui-et-demain/ by Bert Bos Sud Web 2012 http://sudweb.fr/2012 Toulouse, France * 2012-05-29 (29 MAY) W3C Open Web Platform, a platform for connected devices by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobile web challenges workshop http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/agenda Paris, France * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Roadmaps for the open mobile web panel features Jiri Kupiainen Open Mobile Summit http://www.openmobilesummit.com/ London, United Kingdom * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Mobile HTML5 training by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobile HTML5 Interop http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/interop Paris, France * 2012-05-31 (31 MAY) Minimum Agreement, Maximum Impact http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0531_phila_overheid/ by Phil Archer Open Overheid Congres http://www.ecp.nl/open-overheid-congres Utrecht, The Netherlands * 2012-06-05 (5 JUN) Semantic Web and Related Work at W3C by Ivan Herman The 2012 Semantic Tech &amp; Business Conference http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm San Francisco, USA * 2012-06-06 (6 JUN) Mobile Web Apps and HTML5 by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Taller sobre Web Móvil y HTML5 http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2012/Taller/Barcelona/ Barcelona, Spain * 2012-06-08 (8 JUN) A short introduction to Semantic Web technologies http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0608-Oracle-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Oracle Redwood City, CA, USA * 2012-07-09 (9 JUL) Semantic Web &lt; at &gt; W3C by Ivan Herman SSSW'12 The 9th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web http://sssw.org/2012/ Cercedilla, Spain W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Amadeus * Netbiscuits * NXP Software * Sencha Inc. * WHItech Technologies About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? Write the W3C Communications Team (w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org). http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120514 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/latest http://www.w3.org/Press/ mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Subscribe mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Unsubscribe mailto:w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-05-14T13:02:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/440 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-05-07 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120507 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Five Provenance Drafts Published 03 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9440 The Provenance Working Group published 5 Working Drafts today related to the PROV data model. Provenance information can be used for many purposes, such as understanding how data was collected so it can be meaningfully used, determining ownership and rights over an object, making judgments about information to determine whether to trust it, verifying that the process and steps used to obtain a result complies with given requirements, and reproducing how something was generated. The PROV model is used to represent provenance records, which contain descriptions of the entities and activities involved in producing and delivering or otherwise influencing a given object. http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/ * PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model introduces the provenance concepts found in PROV and defines PROV-DM types and relations. * Constraints of the Provenance Data Model introduces a further set of concepts useful for understanding the PROV data model and defines inferences that are allowed on provenance statements and validity constraints that PROV instances should follow. These inferences and constraints are useful for readers who develop applications that generate provenance or reason over provenance. (First Public Working Draft) * PROV-N: The Provenance Notation allows serializations of PROV instances to be created in a compact manner. (First Public Working Draft) * PROV-O: The PROV Ontology expresses the PROV Data Model using the OWL2 Web Ontology Language (OWL2). * PROV Model Primer provides an intuitive introduction and guide to the PROV specification for provenance on the Web. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Two CSS Level 3 Modules Published: Exclusions and Shapes; Regions 03 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9441 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published Working Drafts of "CSS Exclusions and Shapes Module Level 3" and "CSS Regions Module Level 3." Exclusions and Shapes lets people define arbitrary areas around which inline content content can flow. CSS Exclusions extend the notion of content wrapping previously limited to floats. The CSS regions module allows content to flow across multiple areas called regions. The regions are not necessarily contiguous in the document order. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-exclusions-20120503/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-regions-20120503/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board 01 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9439 The W3C Advisory Committee has filled six open seats on the W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July 2012, the nine Advisory Board participants are Ann Bassetti (Boeing), Jim Bell (HP), Michael Champion (Microsoft), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Qiuling Pan (Huawei), Jean-Charles Verdié (MStar Semiconductor), Ora Lassila (Nokia), Charles McCathieNevile (Opera), and Takeshi Natsuno (Keio University). Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board. http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/ Call for Implementations: Web Workers; HTML5 Web Messaging 01 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9438 The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ * Web Workers, which defines an API that allows Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism. * HTML5 Web Messaging, which defines two mechanisms for communicating between browsing contexts in HTML documents. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Three SPARQL 1.1 Last Call Drafts Published 01 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9437 The SPARQL Working Group published three Last Call Working Drafts today: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/ * SPARQL 1.1 Overview, which provides an introduction to a set of W3C specifications that facilitate querying and manipulating RDF graph content on the Web or in an RDF store. * SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol, which describes the use of HTTP operations for the purpose of managing a collection of RDF graphs in the REST architectural style. * SPARQL 1.1 Query Results CSV and TSV Formats, which describes the use of CSV(comma separated values) and TSV (tab separated values) for expressing SPARQL query results from SELECT queries. Comments are welcome through 01 June. The group is further planning to shortly release a 2nd Last Call working draft of the SPARQL 1.1 Query Language, after which we plan to advance all Recommendation track drafts in the next iteration to Proposed Recommendation directly. To this end, the group is currently gathering implementation reports and would appreciate reports from the community of implementations of any of the SPARQL1.1 specifications. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3 Draft Published 01 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9436 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of "CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3." CSS Writing Modes Level 3 defines CSS features to support for various international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic), right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g. mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g. Asian scripts). Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-writing-modes-20120501/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization Draft Published 01 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9435 The Internationalization Core Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization." This Architectural Specification provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference on the use of normalization of text and string identity matching on the Web. The goal of this specification is to improve interoperable text manipulation on the World Wide Web. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity. http://www.w3.org/International/core/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-charmod-norm-20120501/ http://www.w3.org/International/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) – 2012-06-13 (13 JUN) Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dub lin-cfp Dublin, Ireland Hosted by Trinity College Dublin, with funding by the European Commission * 2012-06-14 (14 JUN) – 2012-06-15 (15 JUN) W3C Workshop on Web-Based Signage http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/cfp Tokyo (Chiba), Japan Hosted by NTT The Web is at a turning point with the emergence of the Open Web Platform, the set of technologies used to create highly interactive experiences and social apps on a broad range of devices. W3C has helped foster the deployment of Web technology on mobile devices and, for the past two years, has made the convergence of Web and TV a priority (see the Web and TV Interest Group). We now see an opportunity to extend the Web to a new class of devices: very large digital displays. We invite operators of consumer electronics companies, digital signage platforms, advertisers, browser vendors, sign owners, and others to participate in this discussion. * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN) Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Brussels, Belgium Hosted by the European Commission For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? W3C Blog * None. Read the W3C Blog Archives http://www.w3.org/QA/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-05-09 (9 MAY) Conclusiones Día Open Data en Euskadi by Martín Álvarez Congreso Internacional de Ciudadanía Digital http://www.congresociudadaniadigital.com/en/ Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain * 2012-05-10 (10 MAY) HTML5 Implementation areas – future internet, mobile, connected devices – current and future version keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Future Internet Assembly 2012 http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly /aalborg-may-2012 Aalborg, Denmark * 2012-05-11 (11 MAY) Network/Device API Panel panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobilism 2012 http://mobilism.nl/2012/programme Amsterdam, The Netherlands * 2012-05-15 (15 MAY) Upgrade Your Website to HTML5 http://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2012/Sessions/Tuesday/T07 -Upgrade-Your-Website-to-HTML5.aspx by Rajesh Lal Visual Studio Live http://vslive.com/home.aspx Brooklyn, New York, USA * 2012-05-24 (24 MAY) Web &amp; Gaming panel panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Adobe Creative Week http://www.adobelive.fr/journee/web-gaming/ Paris, France * 2012-05-26 (26 MAY) CSS : hier, aujourd’hui et demain http://sudweb.fr/2012/talk/css-hier-aujourdhui-et-demain/ by Bert Bos Sud Web 2012 http://sudweb.fr/2012 Toulouse, France * 2012-05-29 (29 MAY) W3C Open Web Platform, a platform for connected devices by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobile web challenges workshop http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/agenda Paris, France * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Mobile HTML5 training by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobile HTML5 Interop http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/interop Paris, France * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Roadmaps for the open mobile web panel features Jiri Kupiainen Open Mobile Summit http://www.openmobilesummit.com/ London, United Kingdom * 2012-06-05 (5 JUN) Semantic Web and Related Work at W3C by Ivan Herman The 2012 Semantic Tech &amp; Business Conference http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm San Francisco, USA * 2012-06-06 (6 JUN) Mobile Web Apps and HTML5 by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Taller sobre Web Móvil y HTML5 http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2012/Taller/Barcelona/ Barcelona, Spain * 2012-06-08 (8 JUN) A short introduction to Semantic Web technologies http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0608-Oracle-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Oracle Redwood City, CA, USA W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Elias Rayan Mehr institute of technology - Ideal group IT advanced research center About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? Write the W3C Communications Team (w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org). http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120507 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/latest http://www.w3.org/Press/ mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Subscribe mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Unsubscribe mailto:w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-05-07T22:24:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/439 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-04-30 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120430 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Call for Review: Media Queries Proposed Recommendation Published 26 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9430 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Media Queries." HTML and CSS support media-dependent style sheets tailored for different media types. For example, a document may use sans-serif fonts when displayed on a screen and serif fonts when printed. Media queries extend the functionality of media types by allowing more precise labeling of style sheets. Please see the Working Group's implementation report and the Media Queries Test Suite. Comments on the Proposed Recommendation are welcome through 23 May. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-css3-mediaqueries-20120426/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/MediaQueries/20120229/reports/ implement-report http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/MediaQueries/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ W3C Workshop: Web-Based Signage 26 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9432 W3C announces today a Workshop on Web-Based Signage, 14-15 June in Tokyo (Chiba), Japan, and hosted by NTT. W3C is organizing a workshop to share perspectives, business use cases, and technology requirements so that the Open Web Platform can be used on large digital displays (such as those found in city squares and at sporting events). We invite operators of consumer electronics companies, digital signage platforms, advertisers, browser vendors, sign owners, and others to participate in this discussion. W3C membership is not required to participate in this workshop. Please submit a statement of interest by 16 May and learn more about participation. http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/cfp http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/cfp.html#participation Last Call: Server-Sent Events 26 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9429 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Server-Sent Events." This specification defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events. The API is designed such that it can be extended to work with other push notification schemes such as Push SMS. Comments are welcome through 17 May. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-eventsource-20120426/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Early bird extension until 25 April: W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Training Course 23 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9427 Get started in developing Web sites that work well on mobile devices by registering to W3C's "Mobile Web 1: Best Practices" online training course! The now 6-week long course starts Monday, 30 April. Read the course description and register before April 25 and save 30 Euros! http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=19 More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) – 2012-06-13 (13 JUN) Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dub lin-cfp Dublin, Ireland Hosted by Trinity College Dublin, with funding by the European Commission * 2012-06-14 (14 JUN) – 2012-06-15 (15 JUN) W3C Workshop on Web-Based Signage http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/cfp Tokyo (Chiba), Japan Hosted by NTT The Web is at a turning point with the emergence of the Open Web Platform, the set of technologies used to create highly interactive experiences and social apps on a broad range of devices. W3C has helped foster the deployment of Web technology on mobile devices and, for the past two years, has made the convergence of Web and TV a priority (see the Web and TV Interest Group). We now see an opportunity to extend the Web to a new class of devices: very large digital displays. We invite operators of consumer electronics companies, digital signage platforms, advertisers, browser vendors, sign owners, and others to participate in this discussion. * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN) Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Brussels, Belgium Hosted by the European Commission For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? W3C Blog * The state of Do Not Track http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/the_state_of_do_not_track 26 April 2012 by Thomas Roessler http://log.does-not-exist.info/ * Progress on HTML5 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/progress_on_html5 23 April 2012 by Michael[tm] Smith Upcoming Talks * 2012-04-30 (30 APR) Discussion Panel panel features Phil Archer Open standards for open government? http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/events/item/open-standards -for-open-government London, United Kingdom * 2012-05-02 (2 MAY) Color Management in SVG2 by Chris Lilley Libre Graphics Meeting http://libre-graphics-meeting.org/2012/ Vienna, Austria * 2012-05-09 (9 MAY) Conclusiones Día Open Data en Euskadi by Martín Álvarez Congreso Internacional de Ciudadanía Digital http://www.congresociudadaniadigital.com/en/ Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain * 2012-05-10 (10 MAY) HTML5 Implementation areas – future internet, mobile, connected devices – current and future version keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Future Internet Assembly 2012 http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly /aalborg-may-2012 Aalborg, Denmark * 2012-05-11 (11 MAY) Network/Device API Panel panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobilism 2012 http://mobilism.nl/2012/programme Amsterdam, The Netherlands * 2012-05-15 (15 MAY) Upgrade Your Website to HTML5 http://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2012/Sessions/Tuesday/T07 -Upgrade-Your-Website-to-HTML5.aspx by Rajesh Lal Visual Studio Live http://vslive.com/home.aspx Brooklyn, New York, USA * 2012-05-26 (26 MAY) CSS : hier, aujourd’hui et demain http://sudweb.fr/2012/talk/css-hier-aujourdhui-et-demain/ by Bert Bos Sud Web 2012 http://sudweb.fr/2012 Toulouse, France * 2012-05-29 (29 MAY) W3C Open Web Platform, a platform for connected devices by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobile web challenges workshop http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/agenda Paris, France * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Roadmaps for the open mobile web panel features Jiri Kupiainen Open Mobile Summit http://www.openmobilesummit.com/ London, United Kingdom * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Mobile HTML5 training by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobile HTML5 Interop http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/interop Paris, France * 2012-06-05 (5 JUN) Semantic Web and Related Work at W3C by Ivan Herman The 2012 Semantic Tech &amp; Business Conference http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm San Francisco, USA W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Australian Bureau of Statistics * Irdeto * jQuery Foundation About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Early bird extension until 25 April: W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Training Course 23 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9427 Get started in developing Web sites that work well on mobile devices by registering to W3C's "Mobile Web 1: Best Practices" online training course! The now 6-week long course starts Monday, 30 April. Read the course description and register before April 25 and save 30 Euros! http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=19 Call for Participation in The Graphical Web 2012 20 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9426 Developers and designers are excited by the ability to use the graphical features of all modern browsers - Canvas, SVG, CSS, WebGL, and HTML5 video and audio. W3C is proud to support The Graphical Web 2012, which is both the first in a new international conference series on Open Web Graphics and the 10th conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, 11-14 September 2012. This year, the conference returns to Switzerland and the site of the first SVG Open. ETH Zürich will be hosting the conference at its Hönggerberg campus. Members of the W3C SVG Working Group, including W3C Team members Chris Lilley and Doug Schepers, will be attending the conference. The SVG Working Group will also brief attendees on recent developments around the SVG specification, including SVG2 and integration with CSS3 and HTML5. The conference includes a day of instructional courses. The deadline for presentation abstracts and course outlines is 7 May. Learn more about the W3C Graphics Activity. http://www.svgopen.org/2012/ http://www.svgopen.org/2002/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ http://www.svgopen.org/2012/participate.shtml http://www.w3.org/Graphics/ W3C Invites Implementations of Web IDL 19 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9425 The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "Web IDL." This document defines an interface definition language, Web IDL, that can be used to describe interfaces that are intended to be implemented in web browsers. Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of features that allow the behavior of common script objects in the web platform to be specified more readily. How interfaces described with Web IDL correspond to constructs within ECMAScript execution environments is also detailed in this document. It is expected that this document acts as a guide to implementors of already-published specifications, and that newly published specifications reference this document to ensure conforming implementations of interfaces are interoperable. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-WebIDL-20120419/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Incubator Group Report: Towards a Semantic Decision Representation Format 17 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9421 The W3C Decisions and Decision-Making Incubator Group has published their final report. The mission of the Decisions and Decision-Making Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, was to determine the requirements, use cases, and a representation of decisions and decision-making in a collaborative and networked environment suitable for leading to a potential standard for decision exchange, shared situational awareness, and measurement of the speed, effectiveness, and human factors of decision-making. The Incubator Group explored the question over the last year, including use cases, requirements and formats for representing decisions in a machine-understandable format. A standardized decision format would allow the decisions that occur everyday to be managed, archived, shared, and tracked. Two key benefits include the ability to expand and advance the meaningful use of web linked data, as well as the ability to tie-in domain knowledge to provide decision context. The final report captures the major accomplishments and results of the incubator group and ends with a recommendation to transition into a W3C Working Group for the establishment of a Decision Markup Language (DecisionML). http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/decision/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/decision/XGR-decision/ This publication is part of the Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment. This work is not on the W3C standards track. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 17 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9423 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3." CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This draft contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to borders and backgrounds. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2 are borders consisting of images, boxes with multiple backgrounds, boxes with rounded corners and boxes with shadows. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-css3-background-20120417/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3 17 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9422 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3." CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This module contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to the &lt;image&gt; type and replaced elements. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2 are the generalization of the &lt;url&gt; type to the &lt;image&gt; type, several additions to the ‘&lt;image&gt;’ type, a generic sizing algorithm for images and other replaced content in CSS, and several properties controlling the interaction of replaced elements and CSS's layout models. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-css3-images-20120417/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ Two File API Working Drafts Published 17 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9420 The Web Applications Working Group has published two Working Draft today: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ * File API: Writer. This specification defines an API for writing to files from web applications. This API is designed to be used in conjunction with, and depends on definitions in, other APIs and elements on the web platform. Most relevant among these are File API and Web Workers. * File API: Directories and System. This specification defines an API to navigate file system hierarchies, and defines a means by which a user agent may expose sandboxed sections of a user's local filesystem to web applications. It builds on File Writer API, which in turn built on File API, each adding a different kind of functionality. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-05-01 ( 1 MAY) – 2012-05-02 ( 2 MAY) Web Applications WG (WebApps) F2F meeting Mountain View CA USA Microsoft Participants MUST Register for this meeting by 16-Apr-2012. * 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) – 2012-06-13 (13 JUN) Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dub lin-cfp Dublin, Ireland Hosted by Trinity College Dublin, with funding by the European Commission * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN) Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Brussels, Belgium Hosted by the European Commission For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? W3C Blog * Progress on HTML5 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/progress_on_html5 23 April 2012 by Michael[tm] Smith * W3C Incubator Activity, a post-mortem http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/w3c_incubator_activity_a_postm ortem 19 April 2012 by Coralie Mercier http://my.opera.com/koalie/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-04-23 (23 APR) Processes and technologies at the W3C http://www.w3c.org.il/news/296 by Eyal Sela University course Be'er Sheva, Israel * 2012-04-23 (23 APR) Processes and technologies at the W3C http://www.w3c.org.il/news/296 by Eyal Sela University course Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, Israel * 2012-04-30 (30 APR) Discussion Panel panel features Phil Archer Open standards for open government? http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/events/item/open-standards -for-open-government London, United Kingdom * 2012-05-02 (2 MAY) Color Management in SVG2 by Chris Lilley Libre Graphics Meeting http://libre-graphics-meeting.org/2012/ Vienna, Austria * 2012-05-10 (10 MAY) HTML5 Implementation areas – future internet, mobile, connected devices – current and future version keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Future Internet Assembly 2012 http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly /aalborg-may-2012 Aalborg, Denmark * 2012-05-11 (11 MAY) Network/Device API Panel panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobilism 2012 http://mobilism.nl/2012/programme Amsterdam, The Netherlands * 2012-05-15 (15 MAY) Upgrade Your Website to HTML5 http://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2012/Sessions/Tuesday/T07 -Upgrade-Your-Website-to-HTML5.aspx by Rajesh Lal Visual Studio Live http://vslive.com/home.aspx Brooklyn, New York, USA * 2012-05-26 (26 MAY) CSS : hier, aujourd’hui et demain http://sudweb.fr/2012/talk/css-hier-aujourdhui-et-demain/ by Bert Bos Sud Web 2012 http://sudweb.fr/2012 Toulouse, France * 2012-05-29 (29 MAY) W3C Open Web Platform, a platform for connected devices by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobile web challenges workshop http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/agenda Paris, France * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Roadmaps for the open mobile web panel features Jiri Kupiainen Open Mobile Summit http://www.openmobilesummit.com/ London, United Kingdom * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Mobile HTML5 training by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobile HTML5 Interop http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/interop Paris, France * 2012-06-05 (5 JUN) Semantic Web and Related Work at W3C by Ivan Herman The 2012 Semantic Tech &amp; Business Conference http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm San Francisco, USA W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Leiyoo Information Technology Co. * Mahd Parda Pajohan (MPP) About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Registration for W3C Online Course on Mobile Web Best Practices; Early Bird Rate Through 23 April 10 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9419 W3C is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the next edition of the most popular W3C online training course, Mobile Web 1: Best Practices. The 6-week course begins 30 April 2012. It will help Web designers and content producers who are already familiar with the desktop world to become familiar with the Web as delivered on mobile devices. It is based entirely on W3C standards, particularly the Mobile Web Best Practices. Along with the course description, read comments from past students and what they have achieved. An early bird rate of €195 is available until 23 April 2012; after that date the full price is €225 so register now. http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=19 http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=19 W3C Workshop: The Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements 10 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9418 W3C announces today a Workshop on Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements, 11-13 June in Dublin, Ireland. Organized by the MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group, the purpose of this workshop is two-fold: first, to discuss the intersection between Linked Open Data and Multilingual Technologies, and second, to discuss Requirements of the W3C MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group. Participation is free. We welcome participation from both speakers and non-speaking attendees. However, whereas future MultilingualWeb workshops will continue the wide-ranging format of previous MultilingualWeb events, and will aim again at a larger audience, attendees for this workshop are required to participate actively in discussions and will need to submit a position statement for the workshop registration. There are limited spaces available. Learn more about Internationalization at W3C. http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dublin- cfp http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/ http://www.w3.org/International/ Last Call: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and Implementing ATAG 2.0 10 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9416 The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published an updated Last Call Working Draft of "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0" and a Working Draft of "Implementing ATAG 2.0." ATAG defines how authoring tools should help developers produce accessible web content that conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. It also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Comment deadline is 5 June 2012. Learn more in ATAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft published and read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/ http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/ http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php#for http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012AprJun/0016 http://www.w3.org/WAI/ CSS Variables Module Level 1 Draft Published 10 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9415 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "CSS Variables Module Level 1." CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This module contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to variables. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2 are the introduction of the variable as a new primitive value type that is accepted by all properties. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css-variables-20120410/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile Draft Published 10 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9414 The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a second Public Working Draft of "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile." This document describes a profile of the EXI 1.0 specification for devices with limited memory capacities. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-exi-profile-20120410/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) – 2012-06-13 (13 JUN) Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dub lin-cfp Dublin, Ireland Hosted by Trinity College Dublin, with funding by the European Commission * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN) Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Brussels, Belgium Hosted by the European Commission For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? W3C Blog * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-03-26 - 2012-04-01 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/openweb-weekly-31 10 April 2012 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-04-16 (16 APR) CSS3 in Style http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track WWW2012 http://www.www2012.org/ Lyon, France * 2012-04-16 (16 APR) Accessibility in Tomorrow's Web W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) El W3C y la Web Semántica http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2012/0417-WebSemantica-MA by Martín Álvarez VII Feria de Tiendas Virtuales http://www.observatorioaragones.org/feria/ Huesca, Spain * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Developing Mobile Web Applications W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Open Data in Practice W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-19 (19 APR) W3C Roadmap to the Open Web Platform by Daniel Hladky Russian Internet Forum 2012 Moscow, Russia * 2012-04-19 (19 APR) WAI-ACT: Web Accessibility Now by Shadi Abou-Zahra World Wide Web Conference 2012 http://www.www2012.org/ Lyon, France * 2012-05-10 (10 MAY) HTML5 Implementation areas – future internet, mobile, connected devices – current and future version keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Future Internet Assembly 2012 http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly /aalborg-may-2012 Aalborg, Denmark * 2012-05-11 (11 MAY) Network/Device API Panel panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobilism 2012 http://mobilism.nl/2012/programme Amsterdam, The Netherlands * 2012-05-15 (15 MAY) Upgrade Your Website to HTML5 http://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2012/Sessions/Tuesday/T07 -Upgrade-Your-Website-to-HTML5.aspx by Rajesh Lal Visual Studio Live http://vslive.com/home.aspx Brooklyn, New York, USA * 2012-05-26 (26 MAY) CSS : hier, aujourd’hui et demain http://sudweb.fr/2012/talk/css-hier-aujourdhui-et-demain/ by Bert Bos Sud Web 2012 http://sudweb.fr/2012 Toulouse, France * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Roadmaps for the open mobile web panel features Jiri Kupiainen Open Mobile Summit http://www.openmobilesummit.com/ London, United Kingdom * 2012-06-05 (5 JUN) Semantic Web and Related Work at W3C by Ivan Herman The 2012 Semantic Tech &amp; Business Conference http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm San Francisco, USA W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Mahd Parda Pajohan (MPP) * Newphoria Corporation * RICOM Inc. * Verimatrix, Inc. About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Expands Presence at WWW 2012 to Increase Community Engagement 27 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9401 [] W3C invites developers, business, government, media, analysts, and all who attend the 2012 World Wide Web Conference to participate in the expanding W3C Track and learn how the Open Web Platform is transforming industry and society. W3C's activities at the conference this year, from 16-20 April at the Lyon Convention Center in France, include: http://www.www2012.org/ http://www2012.org/ http://www.w3.org/2012/04/w3c-track * Tim Berners-Lee Keynote (and participation in Workshops and a Panel) * W3C Tutorial Track (NEW!), four half-day presentations on CSS3 in Style, Accessibility in Tomorrow's Web, Developing Mobile Web Applications, Open Data in Practice * W3C Track: Camp-style half-day interactive discussions with W3C experts and Web users on Web Security and Privacy, and HTML5 Games A number of W3C staff will be on hand to discuss HTML5, CSS, and other technologies of the Open Web Platform. Attendees can also learn about W3C online training and participation in W3C Community Groups, and meet representatives of the new W3C France Office. The France Office and Inria will have a booth (number 54) in the exhibition area at the Lyon Convention Center. Read the full press release for details and see you in Lyon. http://www.w3.org/People/ http://www.w3devcampus.com http://www.w3.org/community/ http://www.w3.org/2011/09/france-pr http://www.w3.org/2012/03/www2012.html.en Mobile Accessibility - Online Symposium - Call for Papers 05 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9413 The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) will hold an online symposium to explore mobile accessibility challenges, existing resources, and areas for future research and development. The Call for Papers is open until 7 May 2012. Learn more about the Symposium on Mobile Accessibility and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012AprJun/0013 http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Two XML Schema Specifications are Recommendations 05 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9412 The XML Schema Working Group has published "W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures" and "Part 2: Datatypes" as W3C Recommendations. The W3C XML Schema Recommendation specifies an XML language for describing the structure and constraining the content of XML documents. It provides both structures and data types, as well as facilities for people and specifications to define their own structures and data types, whether for validation, data binding, documentation or other purposes. Learn more about the XML Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-xmlschema11-1-20120405/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-xmlschema11-2-20120405/ http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity Four Drafts Published by the Government Linked Data Working Group 05 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9411 The Government Linked Data Working Group has published four First Public Working Drafts today: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/ * Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT). DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web. This document defines the schema and provides examples for its use. * The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary. There are many situations where it would be useful to be able to publish multi-dimensional data, such as statistics, on the web in such a way that it can be linked to related data sets and concepts. The Data Cube vocabulary provides a means to do this using the W3C RDF (Resource Description Framework) standard. The model underpinning the Data Cube vocabulary is compatible with the cube model that underlies SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange), an ISO standard for exchanging and sharing statistical data and metadata among organizations. The Data Cube vocabulary is a core foundation which supports extension vocabularies to enable publication of other aspects of statistical data flows. * Terms for describing people. This document defines a set of terms for describing people. It defines how to describe people's characteristics such as names or addresses and how to relate people to other things, for example to organizations or projects. For each term, guidance on the usage within a running example is provided. This document also defines mappings to widely used vocabularies to enable interoperability. * An organization ontology. This document describes a core ontology for organizational structures, aimed at supporting linked-data publishing of organizational information across a number of domains. It is designed to allow domain-specific extensions to add classification of organzations and roles, as well as extensions to support neighbouring information such as organizational activities. Learn more about the eGovernment Activity. http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/ DOM4 Draft Published 05 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9410 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of "DOM4." DOM4 defines the event and document model the Web platform uses. The DOM is a language- and platform neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of documents. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-dom-20120405/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ W3C Launches Web Cryptography Working Group 04 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9409 W3C launched today a new Web Cryptography Working Group, whose mission is to define an API that lets developers implement secure application protocols on the level of Web applications, including message confidentiality and authentication services, by exposing trusted cryptographic primitives from the browser. Web application developers will no longer have to create their own or use untrusted third-party libraries for cryptographic primitives. This will improve security on the Web. Some of the chartered use cases for this API include: http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/ http://www.w3.org/2011/11/webcryptography-charter * The ability to select credentials and sign statements can be necessary to perform high-value transactions such as those involved in finance, corporate security, and identity-related claims about personal data. * The provisioning and use of keys within Web applications can be used for scenarios such as increasing the security of user authentication and determining whether a particular device is authenticated for particular services. * The ability to check source integrity before executing Javascript code previously stored in local storage. Learn more about the Security Activity. http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity Last Call: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing 03 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9408 The Web Application Security Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing." This document, produced jointly with the Web Applications Working Group, defines a mechanism to enable client-side cross-origin requests. Specifications that enable an API to make cross-origin requests to resources can use the algorithms defined by this specification. If such an API is used on http://example.org resources, a resource on http://hello-world.example can opt in using the mechanism described by this specification (e.g., specifying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://example.org as response header), which would allow that resource to be fetched cross-origin from http://example.org. Comments are welcome through 1 May 2012. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-cors-20120403/ http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Three drafts published by the CSS Working Group 03 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9407 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published three Working Drafts today. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members * CSS Transforms.CSS transforms allows elements styled with CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. This specification is the convergence of the CSS 2D transforms, CSS 3D transforms and SVG transforms specifications. * CSS Animations. This CSS module describes a way for authors to animate the values of CSS properties over time, using keyframes. The behavior of these keyframe animations can be controlled by specifying their duration, number of repeats, and repeating behavior. * CSS Transitions.CSS Transitions allows property changes in CSS values to occur smoothly over a specified duration. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/ Note: Requirements for Japanese Text Layout Updated 03 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9406 Participants in the Japanese Layout Task Force (with input from four W3C Working Groups, CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL Working Groups) published a second version of a Group Note: "Requirements of Japanese Text Layout." This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051, however, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. This second version of the document contains a significant amount of additional information related to hanmen design, such as handling headings, placement of illustrations and tables, handling of notes and reference marks, etc. A "Japanese version" is also available. Learn more about W3C's Internationalization Activity. http://www.w3.org/2007/02/japanese-layout/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ http://www.w3.org/International/core/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-jlreq-20090604/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-jlreq-20120403/ja/ http://www.w3.org/International/ Ten HTML5 Drafts Updated 29 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9404 The HTML Working Group has published ten updated working drafts: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/ * the HTML5 specification * HTML5: Edition for Web Authors * HTML5 differences from HTML4 * HTML+RDFa 1.1 * HTML Microdata * HTML Canvas 2D Context * HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives * Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents * HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide * HTML: The Markup Language There is a "comprehensive list of the changes made to the HTML5 spec" since publication of the previous HTML Working Draft (May 2011). Most of the changes are fine-tuning refinements rather than major new additions, in keeping with the progress of the specification toward greater stability, and transitioning toward an upcoming Candidate Recommendation draft. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-diff-20120329/#changes-2011- 05-25 Learn more about HTML. http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/htmlcss SMIL Timesheets 1.0 Note Published 29 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9403 The SYMM Working Group has published a Group Note of "SMIL Timesheets 1.0." This document defines an XML timing language that makes SMIL 3.0 element and attribute timing control available to a wide range of other XML languages. This language allows SMIL timing to be integrated into a wide variety of a-temporal languages, even when several such languages are combined in a compound document. Because of its similarity with external style and positioning descriptions in the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language, this functionality has been termed SMIL Timesheets. Learn more about the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Activity. http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/Group/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-timesheets-20120328/ http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/ Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) Draft Published 27 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9400 The First Public Working Draft of "Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM)" was published today by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) and Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG), through the joint WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force ( Eval TF ). WCAG-EM provides an approach for evaluating how websites - including web applications and websites for mobile devices - conform to WCAG 2.0. Learn more about WCAG-EM Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology Draft Published and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/2011/eval/eval-tf http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012JanMar/0296 http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Three drafts published by the XML Query Working Group 27 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9399 The XML Query Working Group has published three Working Drafts today. http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/ * XQuery Update Facility 3.0 Requirements and Use Cases, a First Public Working Draft that specifies goals, requirements and use cases for the XQuery Update Facility 3.0. * XQuery 3.0 Use Cases which specifies usage scenarios for XML Query (XQuery) 3.0. * XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0 Requirements and Use Cases, this First Public Working Draft, jointly developed by the W3C XML Query Working Group and the W3C XSL Working Group, specifies requirements and use cases for Full-Text Search for use in XQuery 3.0 and XPath 3.0. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN) Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Brussels, Belgium Hosted by the European Commission For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? W3C Blog * On the W3C Agenda: Headlights 2012 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/on_the_w3c_agenda_headlights_2 2 April 2012 by Jeff Jaffe http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/ * First European Members to join the new W3C Startup Program: Joshfire, Data2Type, Temesis, SC IQ Tech Labs. http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/first_european_members_joined 2 April 2012 by Bernard Gidon https://www.w3.org/Team/Bgidon/ * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-03-19 - 2012-03-25 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/openweb-weekly-30 27 March 2012 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-04-16 (16 APR) Accessibility in Tomorrow's Web W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Open Data in Practice W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Developing Mobile Web Applications W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-19 (19 APR) WAI-ACT: Web Accessibility Now by Shadi Abou-Zahra World Wide Web Conference 2012 http://www.www2012.org/ Lyon, France * 2012-04-19 (19 APR) W3C Roadmap to the Open Web Platform by Daniel Hladky Russian Internet Forum 2012 Moscow, Russia * 2012-05-10 (10 MAY) HTML5 Implementation areas – future internet, mobile, connected devices – current and future version keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Future Internet Assembly 2012 http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly /aalborg-may-2012 Aalborg, Denmark * 2012-05-11 (11 MAY) Network/Device API Panel panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobilism 2012 http://mobilism.nl/2012/programme Amsterdam, The Netherlands * 2012-05-15 (15 MAY) Upgrade Your Website to HTML5 http://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2012/Sessions/Tuesday/T07 -Upgrade-Your-Website-to-HTML5.aspx by Rajesh Lal Visual Studio Live http://vslive.com/home.aspx Brooklyn, New York, USA * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY) Roadmaps for the open mobile web panel features Jiri Kupiainen Open Mobile Summit http://www.openmobilesummit.com/ London, United Kingdom * 2012-06-05 (5 JUN) Semantic Web and Related Work at W3C by Ivan Herman The 2012 Semantic Tech &amp; Business Conference http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm San Francisco, USA W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Beijing Leadtone Wireless Ltd. * HTML5 Developer Community * Information Technology Center for National Science &amp; Technology Infrastructure * Maxthon International Limited * Network Advertising Initiative * Newphoria Corporation * Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc * SC IQ TECH LABS SRL * Temesis * Verizon Wireless * Zingaya About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Last Call: Widget Updates 22 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9396 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Widget Updates." This specification defines a process and a document format to allow a user agent to update an installed widget package with a different version of a widget package. A widget cannot automatically update itself; instead, a widget relies on the user agent to manage the update process. Comments are welcome through 19 April. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-widgets-updates-20120322/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ CSS Specifications Updated: Flexible Box Layout, Grid Layout 22 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9395 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published two Working Drafts: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members * CSS Flexible Box Layout Module describes a CSS box model optimized for user interface design. In the flexbox layout model, the children of a flexbox can be laid out in any direction, and can "flex" their sizes, either growing to fill unused space or shrinking to avoid overflowing the parent. Both horizontal and vertical alignment of the children can be easily manipulated. Nesting of these boxes (horizontal inside vertical, or vertical inside horizontal) can be used to build layouts in two dimensions. * CSS Grid Layout which allows designers to define invisible grids of horizontal and vertical lines. Elements from a document can then be anchored to points in the grid, which aligns them visually to each other, even if they are not next to each other in the source. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/ The Media Capture API Note Published 22 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9394 The Device APIs Working Group has published a Group Note of "The Media Capture API." This specification defined an Application Programming Interface (API) that provided access to the audio, image and video capture capabilities of the device. Development on it has stopped, and further work is taking place as part of “getusermedia: Getting access to local devices that can generate multimedia streams”. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-media-capture-api-20120322/ http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Speech Module 20 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9392 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "CSS Speech Module." CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language that describes the rendering of markup documents (e.g. HTML, XML) on various supports, such as screen, paper, speech, etc. The Speech module defines aural CSS properties that enable authors to declaratively control the rendering of documents via speech synthesis, and using optional audio cues. Note that this standard was developed in cooperation with the Voice Browser Activity. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-css3-speech-20120320/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN) Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Brussels, Belgium Hosted by the European Commission For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? W3C Blog * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-03-12 - 2012-03-18 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/openweb-weekly-29 26 March 2012 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ * W3C Day in Spain: HTML5 and Government Linked Data http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/w3c_day_in_spain 23 March 2012 by Martin Alvarez-Espinar http://www.w3c.es/Personal/Martin Upcoming Talks * 2012-03-26 (26 MAR) What paths to WCAG2.0 compliance? panel features Shadi Abou-Zahra European Accessibility Forum http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/ 76_index_en Paris, France * 2012-03-26 (26 MAR) Managing Website Accessibility Conformance by Shadi Abou-Zahra European Accessibility Forum http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/ 76_index_en Paris, France * 2012-03-27 (27 MAR) Bonnes pratiques pour le Web mobile by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Rencontres Experts Eyrolles, Sites web : les meilleures pratiques http://eyrolles-serveur.com/formulaire/ Paris, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Developing Mobile Web Applications W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Open Data in Practice W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * data2type GmbH * RITT About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Call for Review: Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic) Proposed Recommendation Published 15 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9391 The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic)." This document describes the Media Fragments 1.0 (basic) specification. It specifies the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs and explains how to handle them when used over the HTTP protocol. The syntax is based on the specification of particular name-value pairs that can be used in URI fragment and URI query requests to restrict a media resource to a certain fragment. The Media Fragment WG has no authority to update registries of all targeted media types. We recommend media type owners to harmonize their existing schemes with the ones proposed in this document and update or add the fragment semantics specification to their media type registration. Comments are welcome through 26 April. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-media-frags-20120315/ http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/ Web Audio API Draft Published 15 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9390 The Audio Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Web Audio API." This specification describes a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. The primary paradigm is of an audio routing graph, where a number of AudioNode objects are connected together to define the overall audio rendering. The actual processing will primarily take place in the underlying implementation (typically optimized Assembly / C / C++ code), but direct JavaScript processing and synthesis is also supported. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webaudio-20120315/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Two Drafts Published by the Tracking Protection Working Group 13 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9389 The Tracking Protection Working Group has published two documents today. http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/ * A First Public Working Draft of Tracking Compliance and Scope which defines the meaning of a Do Not Track (DNT) preference and sets out practices for websites to comply with this preference. * A First Public Working Draft of Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) which defines the technical mechanisms for expressing a tracking preference via the DNT request header field in HTTP, via an HTML DOM property readable by embedded scripts, and via properties accessible to various user agent plug-in or extension APIs. It also defines mechanisms for sites to signal whether and how they honor this preference, both in the form of a machine-readable tracking status resource at a well-known location and via a "Tk" response header field, and a mechanism for allowing the user to approve site-specific exceptions to DNT as desired. Learn more about the Privacy Activity. http://www.w3.org/Privacy/ Three Web Applications Working Group specifications published 13 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9388 The Web Applications Working Group has published three documents today. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ * A Last Call Working Draft of HTML5 Web Messaging which defines two mechanisms for communicating between browsing contexts in HTML documents. Comments are welcome through 03 April. * A Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers that defines an API that allows Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism. Comments are welcome through 03 April. * A Group Note of Widget URI scheme that defines the widget URI scheme and rules for dereferencing a widget URI, which can be used to address resources inside a package. The dereferencing model relies on HTTP semantics to return resources in a manner akin to a HTTP GET request. Doing so allows this URI scheme to be used with other technologies that rely on HTTP responses to function as intended, such as XMLHTTPRequest. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ W3C Invites Implementations of Navigation Timing 13 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9387 The Web Performance Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "Navigation Timing." This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-navigation-timing-20120313/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Last Call: High Resolution Time 13 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9386 The Web Performance Working Group has published a First Public and Last Call Working Draft of "High Resolution Time." This document defines a Javascript interface that provides the current time in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments. Comments are welcome through 10 April. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-hr-time-20120313/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ W3C Invites Implementations of RDFa Core 1.1, RDFa Lite 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 13 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9385 The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Candidate Recommendation documents for "RDFa Core 1.1," "RDFa Lite 1.1" and "XHTML+RDFa 1.1." http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-rdfa-core-20120313/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-rdfa-lite-20120313/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xhtml-rdfa-20120313/ Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa Core 1.1 specifies the core syntax and processing rules for RDFa 1.1 and how the language is intended to be used in XML documents. RDFa Lite 1.1 provides a simple subset of RDFa for novice web authors. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 specifies the usage of RDFa in the XHTML markup language. A number of improvements have been made to RDFa 1.1 over the past year by working closely with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the other search engine developers. Public review and comments have resulted in a number of further refinements to the language that eases the learning curve for beginner Web authors. The release of these Candidate Recommendation documents is a signal to developers that the Working Group believes that each specification is ready for implementation. The RDF Web Applications Working Group thus kindly asks for developers across the Web to implement the specification and provide implementation feedback via the RDF Web Applications Working Group mailing list. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/ You can learn more about similar projects to RDFa via the W3C's Semantic Web Activity homepage. http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ XML Security WG publishes Candidate Recommendation Drafts for XML Encryption 1.1 13 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9384 The XML Security Working Group has published the " "XML Encryption 1.1" " Candidate Recommendation. This is a new CR publication which reflects changes since the previous CR publication to address newly publicized chosen-ciphertext attacks against the CBC class of algorithms. Changes include making an authenticated encryption algorithm mandatory to implement (AES-128-GCM), updating the security considerations and adding additional algorithm choices to the RSA-OAEP key transport algorithm set to provide algorithm agility. Additional changes include various editorial improvements. Details of all changes are noted in the status section of the document. http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xmlenc-core1-20120313/ The Working Group also has published a CR draft outlining the use of XML Signature 2.0 transforms in XML Encryption 1.1 - the " "XML Encryption 1.1 CipherReference Processing using 2.0 Transforms" " Candidate Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xmlenc-transform20-20120313/ To address patent disclosures related to the XML Signature 1.1 and XML Encryption 1.1 specifications, the W3C has chartered a Patent Advisory Group. http://www.w3.org/2011/xmlsec-pag/ Learn more about the Security Activity. http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN) Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Brussels, Belgium Hosted by the European Commission For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? W3C Blog * Interoperable Governments? http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/interoperable_governments 13 March 2012 by Phil Archer * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-02-06 - 2012-03-11 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/openweb-weekly-28 12 March 2012 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-03-19 (19 MAR) Report on the "Future of Research Communications" Workshop http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0319-Dagstuhl-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board Meeting Dagstuhl, Germany * 2012-03-22 (22 MAR) The Mobile Web - what I've learned from my 'Students' http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0322_phila_openMIC/ panel features Phil Archer openMIC #13 http://open-mic.org.uk/ Bath, United Kingdom * 2012-03-26 (26 MAR) Managing Website Accessibility Conformance by Shadi Abou-Zahra European Accessibility Forum http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/ 76_index_en Paris, France * 2012-03-26 (26 MAR) What paths to WCAG2.0 compliance? panel features Shadi Abou-Zahra European Accessibility Forum http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/ 76_index_en Paris, France * 2012-03-27 (27 MAR) Bonnes pratiques pour le Web mobile by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Rencontres Experts Eyrolles, Sites web : les meilleures pratiques http://eyrolles-serveur.com/formulaire/ Paris, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Developing Mobile Web Applications W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Open Data in Practice W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * data2type GmbH * Future Web Technology Labs Inc. * Panasonic Corporation * Tasktop Technologies, Inc. About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? Write the W3C Communications Team (w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org). http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120319 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/latest http://www.w3.org/Press/ mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Subscribe mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Unsubscribe mailto:w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-03-19T22:09:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/432 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-03-12 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120312 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Launches Work to Simplify Creation of Content in World's Languages 07 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9377 [] Today W3C announced new work to make it easier for people to create Web content in the world's languages. The lack of standards for exchanging information about translations is estimated to cost the industry as much as 20% more in translation costs, amounting to billions of dollars. In addition, barriers to distributing content in more than one language mean lost business. Multinational companies often need to translate Web content into dozens of languages simultaneously, and public bodies from Europe and India typically must communicate with citizens in many languages. As the Web becomes more diverse linguistically, translation demands will continue to grow. http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/ The MultilingualWeb–LT (Language Technology) Working Group will develop standard ways to support the (automatic and manual) translation and adaptation of Web content to local needs, from its creation to its delivery to end users. Read the press release and learn more about the W3C Internationalization Activity. The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group receives funding from the European Commission (project name LT-Web) through the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/ https://www.w3.org/2012/02/mlw-lt http://www.w3.org/International/ W3C Workshop - Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism 09 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9381 W3C announces today a Workshop on Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism. For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? The Workshop takes place 19-20 June in Brussels, Belgium at the European Commission Headquarters. W3C Membership is not required to participate, but participation is limited to 80 people and participants must submit position papers. Workshop participants will focus on uses of open data, not its publication. In particular, the intention is that participants will highlight uses of data for tools that aid policy modeling, that empower citizens, and that can be usefully visualized for data journalism. For more information, see the Workshop home page. http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Last Call: CSS Values and Units Module Level 3 08 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9379 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Values and Units Module Level 3." This CSS3 module describes the common values and units that CSS properties accept and the syntax used for describing them in CSS property definitions. Comments are welcome through 29 March. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-values-20120308/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ Two Notes Published by the HTML Data Task Force 08 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9378 The HTML Data Task Force, Semantic Web Interest Group has published two Notes today: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/ * The HTML Data Guide aims to help publishers and consumers of HTML data. With several syntaxes (microformats, microdata, RDFa) and vocabularies (schema.org, Dublin Core, microformat vocabularies, etc.) to choose from, it provides guidance on deciding what to choose in a way that meets the publisher's or consumer's needs. * The Microdata to RDF describes processing rules that may be used to extract RDF from an HTML document containing micro data. Both documents are Interest Group Notes, meaning that no further work is planned on the documents themselves, although future Working Groups may use these as input documents for further Recommendation Work. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ MediaStream Capture Scenarios Draft Published 06 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9376 The Device APIs Working Group and Web Real-Time Communications Working Group have published a First Public Working Draft of "MediaStream Capture Scenarios." This document collates the scenarios that are target use cases for the Media Capture API that enables access to media input capabilities for Web applications using Javascript. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ http://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-capture-scenarios-20120306/ http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN) Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/ Brussels, Belgium Hosted by the European Commission For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data, fostering a culture in which public administrations make their data available, ideally in machine-processable formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what is all the 'new' government open data being used for? W3C Blog * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-02-06 - 2012-03-11 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/openweb-weekly-28 12 March 2012 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ * Microdata to RDF Distiller http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/microdata_to_rdf_distiller 8 March 2012 by Ivan Herman http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan Upcoming Talks * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) EMMA 1.1: Enriched information from speech and multimodal inputs Mobile Voice Conference 2012 http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity? http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk keynote by Ivan Herman The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works hop Luxembourg, Luxembourg * 2012-03-19 (19 MAR) Report on the "Future of Research Communications" Workshop http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0319-Dagstuhl-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board Meeting Dagstuhl, Germany * 2012-03-22 (22 MAR) The Mobile Web - what I've learned from my 'Students' http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0322_phila_openMIC/ panel features Phil Archer openMIC #13 http://open-mic.org.uk/ Bath, United Kingdom * 2012-03-26 (26 MAR) What paths to WCAG2.0 compliance? panel features Shadi Abou-Zahra European Accessibility Forum http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/ 76_index_en Paris, France * 2012-03-26 (26 MAR) Managing Website Accessibility Conformance by Shadi Abou-Zahra European Accessibility Forum http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/ 76_index_en Paris, France * 2012-03-27 (27 MAR) Bonnes pratiques pour le Web mobile by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Rencontres Experts Eyrolles, Sites web : les meilleures pratiques http://eyrolles-serveur.com/formulaire/ Paris, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Open Data in Practice W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Developing Mobile Web Applications W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Educational Testing Service About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? Write the W3C Communications Team (w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org). http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120312 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/latest http://www.w3.org/Press/ mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Subscribe mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Unsubscribe mailto:w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-03-12T20:35:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/431 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-03-05 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120305 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Two Drafts Published by the CSS Working Group 28 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9375 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts today: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members * CSS Transforms. CSS transforms allows elements styled with CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. This specification is the convergence of the CSS 2D transforms, CSS 3D transforms and SVG transforms specifications. * CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3. This module describes the fragmentation model that partitions a flow into pages. It builds on the Page model module and introduces and defines the fragmentation model. It adds functionality for pagination, breaking variable fragment size and orientation, widows and orphans. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * None. Read the W3C Blog Archives http://www.w3.org/QA/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) EMMA 1.1: Enriched information from speech and multimodal inputs Mobile Voice Conference 2012 http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity? http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk keynote by Ivan Herman The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works hop Luxembourg, Luxembourg * 2012-03-19 (19 MAR) Report on the "Future of Research Communications" Workshop http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0319-Dagstuhl-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board Meeting Dagstuhl, Germany * 2012-03-26 (26 MAR) What paths to WCAG2.0 compliance? panel features Shadi Abou-Zahra European Accessibility Forum http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/ 76_index_en Paris, France * 2012-03-26 (26 MAR) Managing Website Accessibility Conformance by Shadi Abou-Zahra European Accessibility Forum http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/ 76_index_en Paris, France * 2012-03-27 (27 MAR) Bonnes pratiques pour le Web mobile by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Rencontres Experts Eyrolles, Sites web : les meilleures pratiques http://eyrolles-serveur.com/formulaire/ Paris, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Developing Mobile Web Applications W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Open Data in Practice W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Educational Testing Service About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? Write the W3C Communications Team (w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org). http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120305 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/latest http://www.w3.org/Press/ mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Subscribe mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Unsubscribe mailto:w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-03-05T22:36:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/430 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-02-27 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120227 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- White House Supports Do Not Track Technology from W3C 23 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9372 Today the White House announces a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and support for W3C's Do Not Track technology. The announcement includes: "In response to calls from the Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), leading Internet companies and online advertising networks are committing to use Do Not Track technology from the World Wide Web Consortium in most major web browsers to make it easier for users to control online tracking." http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/23/we-can-t- wait-obama-administration-unveils-blueprint-privacy-bill-rights http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/23/fact-shee t-plan-protect-privacy-internet-age-adopting-consumer-privacy-b W3C is building consensus around global Web technology that will allow users to express a preference regarding being tracked online, and what is necessary to comply with the user's preference. W3C welcomes support from the US Government for the steps that industry and civil society are taking within W3C to give users meaningful privacy choices and options for consent. “Personal privacy on the Web is one of the most important policy and technical issues of the decade,” said Dr. Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. “Standards for online consumer privacy should be developed in a global forum, led by industry, with multistakeholder participation. W3C is well-positioned as the forum to address complex online privacy issues.” Read the full W3C press release and learn more about W3C's Privacy Activity. http://www.w3.org/2012/02/dnt.html.en http://www.w3.org/Privacy/ Demos with W3C at Mobile World Congress 2012 24 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9374 [] W3C invites media, analysts, and other attendees of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 to meet with W3C and learn how the Open Web Platform is transforming industry. From 27 February through 1 March W3C will showcase demonstrations at its booth in Hall 2, Stand 2A31. Demonstrations include: http://www.w3.org/2012/MWC/ http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/ * Webinos: Wallet in my Phone, The Vehicle API, Zap and Shake, Air Hockey * AT&amp;T: HTML5 * Opera Software: The Latest on Standards Support in Opera Mobile and Opera’s Mobile Debugging Tools * RIM/BlackBerry: PlayBook/QNX platform * SK Telecom: CanvasGL: The Fastest GPU-Accelerated WebKit * And more! In time for the event, W3C has updated Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: February 2012 current state and roadmap, which summarizes the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the mobile context. http://www.w3.org/2012/02/mobile-web-app-state/ Learn more about the demo schedule and W3C &lt; at &gt; MWC 2012. http://www.w3.org/2012/MWC/ W3C Invites Implementations of R2RML and A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF 23 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9370 The RDB2RDF Working Group has published two Candidate Recommendation documents that help to bring relational database information to the Semantic Web: "R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language" and "A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF." The former describes R2RML, a language for expressing customized mappings from relational databases to RDF datasets. Such mappings provide the ability to view existing relational data in the RDF data model, expressed in a structure and target vocabulary of the mapping author's choice. The latter document defines a direct mapping from relational data to RDF. Implementations are invited. Test Cases are available at: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/test-cases/. Directions on how to submit implementation reports and test case results are at: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/wiki/Submitting_Implementatio n_Reports. Comments and implementation experience reports are welcome through 30 April 2012. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-r2rml-20120223/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-rdb-direct-mapping-20120223/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/test-cases/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/wiki/Submitting_Implementatio n_Reports http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Clipboard API and events Draft Published 23 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9371 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Clipboard API and events." This specification defines the common clipboard operations of cutting, copying and pasting, in such a way that they are exposed to Web Applications and can be adapted to provide advanced functionalities. Its goal is to provide for compatibility where possible with existing implementations. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-clipboard-apis-20120223/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All is updated 21 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9369 The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has updated How to Make Presentations Accessible to All . This WAI resource helps you make presentations, meetings, training, conferences, etc. accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others. It covers planning, preparing slides, considerations during your presentation, providing accessible material, and other topics for conference organizers and presenters. Learn more in the blog post Make Your Presentations Accessible to All updated - share the news and visit the WAI home page. http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/training/accessible http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/make_presentations_accessible http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Last Call: Timing control for script-based animations 21 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9368 The Web Performance Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Timing control for script-based animations." This document defines an API web page authors can use to write script-based animations where the user agent is in control of limiting the update rate of the animation. The user agent is in a better position to determine the ideal animation rate based on whether the page is currently in a foreground or background tab, what the current load on the CPU is, and so on. Using this API should therefore result in more appropriate utilization of the CPU by the browser. Comments are welcome through 20 March. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-animation-timing-20120221/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * Learn how to Write Great Web Applications for Mobile! http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/learn_how_to_write_great_web_a 24 February 2012 by Marie-Claire Forgue http://www.w3.org/People/mcf/ * Make Your Presentations Accessible to All updated - share the news http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/make_presentations_accessible 20 February 2012 by Shawn Henry http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-02-27 (27 FEB) Building the Business Case in your Organization by Shawn Henry AccessU at CSUN http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php San Diego, CA, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) EMMA 1.1: Enriched information from speech and multimodal inputs Mobile Voice Conference 2012 http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity? http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk keynote by Ivan Herman The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works hop Luxembourg, Luxembourg * 2012-03-19 (19 MAR) Report on the "Future of Research Communications" Workshop http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0319-Dagstuhl-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board Meeting Dagstuhl, Germany * 2012-03-27 (27 MAR) Bonnes pratiques pour le Web mobile by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Rencontres Experts Eyrolles, Sites web : les meilleures pratiques http://eyrolles-serveur.com/formulaire/ Paris, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Open Data in Practice W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Developing Mobile Web Applications W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Espial Group Inc. About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? Write the W3C Communications Team (w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org). http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120227 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/latest http://www.w3.org/Press/ mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Subscribe mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Unsubscribe mailto:w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-02-27T23:40:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/429 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-02-20 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120220 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Opens Office in Russia 16 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9364 W3C announces today the opening of a new Russia Offices, as part of increasing inclusion and participation in W3C. The Office is hosted by the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (HSE), founded in 1992. As one of Moscow's leading Universities, HSE will work with W3C to strengthen ties to both industry and research in Russia as well as HSE's many international academic and industry partners. http://w3c.org.ru/ "I am happy to welcome W3C in Russia," said Victor Klintsov, Deputy Director of Institute of Information Technology at HSE and the head of the new Office. "It is very positive to see growing demand for Russian talent not only to be included in one of the most dynamic industries, but also to shape it. Second, it is quite important for Russian specialists to contribute to the most prominent area of Internet development: the Web." Read more in our press release. http://www.w3.org/2012/02/russia-office.html.en W3C Launches Privacy Interest Group 17 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9365 W3C launched today a new Privacy Interest Group, whose mission is to improve the support of privacy in Web standards by monitoring ongoing privacy issues that affect the Web, investigating potential areas for new privacy work, and providing guidelines and advice for addressing privacy in standards development. The group may consider issues such as online tracking; location, health and financial data; eGovernment initiatives; and online social networking and identity. Where appropriate, the Interest Group will recommend areas where W3C should begin recommendation-track standards work on privacy issues and may prototype or initiate such work within the group. Participation in the Privacy Interest Group is open to the public. Learn more about Privacy. http://www.w3.org/Privacy/ http://www.w3.org/2011/07/privacy-ig-charter http://www.w3.org/Privacy/ SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation 16 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9363 The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of "SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0." This document specifies how SOAP binds to a messaging system that supports the Java Message Service (JMS) [Java Message Service]. Binding is specified for both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 using the SOAP 1.2 Protocol Binding Framework. This specification also describes how to use WSDL documents to indicate and control the use of this binding. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/soapjms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-soapjms-20120216/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction Draft Published 16 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9362 The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of "State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction." This document describes SCXML, or the "State Chart extensible Markup Language". SCXML provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on CCXML and Harel State Tables. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity. http://www.w3.org/Voice/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-scxml-20120216/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/Activity Last Call: CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 14 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9360 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3" for the purpose of updating the previous Candidate Recommendation. This module of CSS contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to borders and backgrounds. The main extensions compared to level 2 are borders consisting of images, boxes with multiple backgrounds, boxes with rounded corners and boxes with shadows. All persons are encouraged to review the "changes" and send comments to the www-style mailing list. The deadline for comments is 6 March 2012. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-background-20120214/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-background-20120214/#changes- 2011 http://www.w3.org/Style/ XInclude 1.1 Requirement and Use Cases Note Published 14 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9361 The XML Core Working Group has published a Group Note of "XInclude 1.1 Requirement and Use Cases." This document outlines the requirements and use cases for to changes to XInclude: support for RFC 5147 and improved communication between the pre- and post-inclusion Infosets. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-xinclude-11-requirements-2012021 4/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * Make Your Presentations Accessible to All updated - share the news http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/make_presentations_accessible 20 February 2012 by Shawn Henry http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/ * W3C in Russia http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/w3c_in_russia 18 February 2012 by Bernard Gidon https://www.w3.org/Team/Bgidon/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-02-27 (27 FEB) Building the Business Case in your Organization by Shawn Henry AccessU at CSUN http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php San Diego, CA, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) EMMA 1.1: Enriched information from speech and multimodal inputs Mobile Voice Conference 2012 http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity? http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk keynote by Ivan Herman The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works hop Luxembourg, Luxembourg * 2012-03-19 (19 MAR) Report on the "Future of Research Communications" Workshop http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0319-Dagstuhl-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board Meeting Dagstuhl, Germany * 2012-03-21 (21 MAR) Transforming the Web together by Bernard Gidon Web-centric IT“ Cologne, Germany * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Developing Mobile Web Applications W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France * 2012-04-17 (17 APR) Open Data in Practice W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track Lyon, France W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Algebraix Data Corporation * Internet Academy * Mobotap Inc. About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- New Mobile Web 2 - Applications Course Open for Registration; Early Bird Rate through 1 March 10 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9359 W3C is pleased to announce that registration is open for a new W3C mobile Web course, "Mobile Web 2: Applications". Developed by the W3C/MobiWebApp team and taught by Robin Berjon, chair of the W3C Device APIs Working Group and recently elected as a TAG member, this mobile Web course gives developers all the tools and knowledge necessary to write mobile Web applications that can ship both online and in application stores, using today's advanced technologies. The 8-week course begins 12 March 2012 and costs 225 EUR. However, an early bird rate of 165 EUR is available until 1 March 2012. Enroll now for the early bird rate. http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=10 http://www.w3devcampus.com/writing-great-web-applications-for-m obile/ http://www.mobiwebapp.eu/ http://twitter.com/robinberjon http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=10 Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation 09 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9358 The Media Annotations Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of "Ontology for Media Resources 1.0." This document defines the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0. The term "Ontology" is used in its broadest possible definition: a core vocabulary. The intent of this vocabulary is to bridge the different descriptions of media resources, and provide a core set of descriptive properties. This document defines a core set of metadata properties for media resources, along with their mappings to elements from a set of existing metadata formats. Besides that, the document presents a Semantic Web compatible implementation of the abstract ontology using RDF/OWL. The document is mostly targeted towards media resources available on the Web, as opposed to media resources that are only accessible in local repositories. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-mediaont-10-20120209/ http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/ WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers Draft Published 09 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9357 The Web Real-Time Communications Working Group has published a Working Draft of "WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers." This document defines a set of APIs to represent streaming media, including audio and video, in JavaScript, to allow media to be sent over the network to another browser or device implementing the appropriate set of real-time protocols, and media received from another browser or device to be processed and displayed locally. This specification is being developed in conjunction with a protocol specification developed by the IETF RTCWEB group and an API specification to get access to local media devices developed by the Media Capture Task Force. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webrtc-20120209/ http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language Version 1.1 Draft Published 09 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9356 The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Working Draft of "EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language Version 1.1." This document is part of a set of specifications for multimodal systems, and provides details of an XML markup language for containing and annotating the interpretation of user input. Examples of interpretation of user input are a transcription into words of a raw signal, for instance derived from speech, pen or keystroke input, a set of attribute/value pairs describing their meaning, or a set of attribute/value pairs describing a gesture. The interpretation of the user's input is expected to be generated by signal interpretation processes, such as speech and ink recognition, semantic interpreters, and other types of processors for use by components that act on the user's inputs such as interaction managers. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-emma11-20120209/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity HTML/XML Task Force Report Note Published 09 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9355 The Technical Architecture Group has published a Group Note of "HTML/XML Task Force Report." This document is the report of the TAG Task Force established to explore how interoperability between HTML and XML could be improved. It describes several use cases that the Task Force considered relevant and proposed resolutions to those cases. Learn more about the Technical Architecture Group. http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-html-xml-tf-report-20120209/ http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ W3C Demonstrates Power of Open Web Platform at Mobile World Congress 2012 08 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9354 [] W3C invites media, analysts, and other attendees of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 to meet with W3C and learn how the Open Web Platform is transforming industry. From 27 February through 1 March W3C will showcase demonstrations of HTML5, CSS3, and other open Web technologies at its booth in Hall 2, Stand 2A31. CEO Jeff Jaffe, W3C staff, and some W3C Members will be available as expert resources for media stories and analyst reports on how the Web is changing mobile, television, advertising, games, publishing, automotive, health care, and other industries. Read the media advisory and learn more about W3C &lt; at &gt; MWC 2012. http://www.w3.org/2012/MWC/ http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/ https://www.w3.org/2012/02/mwc-media.html.en http://www.w3.org/2012/MWC/ W3C Launches New Markup Validation Service 08 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9353 The W3C has launched the Nu Markup Validation Service, a non-DTD-based markup validator being made available to the community in parallel to the existing DTD-based validator.w3.org W3C markup validator. The W3C Nu Markup Validation Service uses the same backend as the Validator.nu site, which is also the backend for the HTML5-checking feature of validator.w3.org. The Nu Markup Validation Service is a separate, standalone validator which provides that same HTML5-checking feature while also offering a user interface that exposes additional options, such as full validation support for XHTML5 documents, and the ability to validate documents that contain features from "RDFa Core 1.1" and from "RDFa Lite 1.1." http://validator.w3.org/nu/ http://validator.w3.org http://validator.nu/ http://validator.w3.org http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-core/ http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-lite/ Widget Access Request Policy is a W3C Recommendation 07 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9352 The Web Applications Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of "Widget Access Request Policy." This specification defines the security model controlling network access from within a widget, as well as a method for authors to request that the user agent grant access to certain network resources or sets thereof. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-widgets-access-20120207/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ CSS Positioned Layout Module Level 3 Draft Published 07 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9351 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "CSS Positioned Layout Module Level 3." CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This module contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to positioning and stacking of elements. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2 are the ability to position elements based on CSS Region boxes, and the ability to specify a different containing blocks for elements. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-positioning-20120207/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ Last Call: Web IDL 07 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9350 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Web IDL." This document defines an interface definition language, Web IDL, that can be used to describe interfaces that are intended to be implemented in web browsers. Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of features that allow the behavior of common script objects in the web platform to be specified more readily. How interfaces described with Web IDL correspond to constructs within ECMAScript execution environments is also detailed in this document. It is expected that this document acts as a guide to implementors of already-published specifications, and that newly published specifications reference this document to ensure conforming implementations of interfaces are interoperable. Comments are welcome through 28 February. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-WebIDL-20120207/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Java language binding for Web IDL Draft Published 07 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9349 The Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "Java language binding for Web IDL." This document defines the Java language binding for Web IDL, the interface definition language for the Web platform. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-WebIDL-Java-20120207/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-01-30 - 2012-02-05 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/openweb-weekly-27 6 February 2012 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-02-13 (13 FEB) Semantic Web Activity &lt; at &gt; W3C http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0213-Houston-IH/#talk by Ivan Herman Face-to-face meeting of the W3C Business Group on Oil, Gas, and Chemicals Houston, USA * 2012-02-14 (14 FEB) Le Web, plate-forme de convergence des appareils mobiles connectés by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Autour du W3C : nouveaux standards et Web Mobile http://www.inria.fr/centre/lille/agenda/conference-autour-d u-w3c-nouveaux-standards-et-web-mobile Lille, France * 2012-02-27 (27 FEB) Building the Business Case in your Organization by Shawn Henry AccessU at CSUN http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php San Diego, CA, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity? http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk keynote by Ivan Herman The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works hop Luxembourg, Luxembourg * 2012-03-21 (21 MAR) Transforming the Web together by Bernard Gidon Web-centric IT“ Cologne, Germany W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * C-DAC * Oficina Nacional de Tecnologías de Información - ONTI - SsTG - JGM * Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione * VistaTEC About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? Write the W3C Communications Team (w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org). http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120213 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/latest http://www.w3.org/Press/ mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Subscribe mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Unsubscribe mailto:w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-02-13T23:12:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/427 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-02-06 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120206 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Internet Society Board Approves Donation to Support W3C Stewardship of Open Web Platform 31 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9340 In its continuing efforts to foster an open Internet ecosystem, the Internet Society today announced a 1M USD donation to the World Wide Web Consortium. This donation, the final installment of the Internet Society’s 2009 pledge of 2.5M USD over three years, supports the continued evolution of W3C as an organization that creates open Web standards. http://www.internetsociety.org/ http://www.w3.org/2009/12/isocw3c-pr “The W3C is emblematic of the inclusive, multistakeholder approach that is critical to the continued development, operation, and use of the open, global Internet,” said Raúl Echeberría, Chair of the Internet Society Board of Trustees. “We look forward to continued cooperation between the W3C and the Internet Society to advance our shared values through independent voices.” Read the press release and ISOC and W3C FAQ. http://www.w3.org/2012/01/isoc-pr http://www.w3.org/2009/11/isoc-w3c-faq W3C Introduces Startup Level for Membership 03 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9347 To increase and broaden participation in its activities, W3C announces today a new startup membership level for small organizations new to W3C. Organizations are eligible for the new level depending on their size (10 or fewer employees) and annual revenues. This new level is available for the first two years of Membership. Please see the startup level description for details and more information about eligibility. Please contact membership&lt; at &gt;w3.org if you have any questions. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/fees-201202#startup http://www.w3.org/Consortium/fees-201202#startup Last Call: Vibration API 02 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9345 The Device APIs Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Vibration API." This specification defines an API that provides access to the vibration mechanism of the hosting device. Vibration is a form of tactile feedback. The API is designed to tackle high-value use cases related to gaming, and is not meant to be used as a generic notification mechanism. Comments are welcome through 01 March. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-vibration-20120202/ http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation Draft Published 02 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9344 The Provenance Working Group has published a Working Draft of "The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation." PROV-DM is a data model for provenance for building representations of the entities, people and activities involved in producing a piece of data or thing in the world. PROV-DM is domain-agnostic, but is equipped with extensibility points allowing further domain-specific and application-specific extensions to be defined. PROV-DM is accompanied by PROV-ASN, a technology-independent abstract syntax notation, which allows serializations of PROV-DM instances to be created for human consumption, which facilitates its mapping to concrete syntax, and which is used as the basis for a formal semantics. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-dm-20120202/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ BAD to Good Updated: Demo shows web accessibility barriers fixed 31 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9343 The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has updated the Before and After Demonstration (BAD). BAD shows an inaccessible website and a retrofitted version of the same website with the accessibility barriers fixed. Read the update e-mail and learn about Accessibility. http://www.w3.org/WAI/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO http://www.w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012JanMar/0024 http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility Three Last Call Working Drafts published by the RDF Web Applications Working Group 31 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9341 The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Last Call Working Drafts today: http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/ * RDFa Core 1.1, * RDFa Lite 1.1 and * XHTML+RDFa 1.1. Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa Core 1.1 specifies the core syntax and processing rules for RDFa 1.1 and how the language is intended to be used in XML documents. RDFa Lite 1.1 provides a simple subset of RDFa for novice Web authors. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 specifies the usage of RDFa in the XHTML markup language. A number of improvements have been made to RDFa 1.1 over the past year by working closely with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the other search engine developers. Public review and comments have resulted in a number of further refinements to the language that eases the learning curve for beginner Web authors. The release of these documents as Last Call Working Drafts is a signal to the public that the Working Group believes that all of the technical requirements, public comments and reported issues have been addressed. It is also an open invitation to the general public to review and provide feedback on the finalization of this technology via the RDF Web Applications Working Group mailing list, by 21 February. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/ http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ W3C Launches Patent Advisory Group for Touch Events Specification 30 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9339 In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to disclosures related to the "Touch Events version 1" Specification. The Web Events Working Group develops this specification. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements. Public comments regarding these disclosures may be sent to public-te-pag&lt; at &gt;w3.org (with public archive). Learn more about Patent Advisory Groups. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/ http://www.w3.org/2012/01/touch-pag-charter http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/ http://www.w3.org/2010/webevents/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except ion http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-te-pag/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except ion More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-01-30 - 2012-02-05 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/openweb-weekly-27 6 February 2012 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ * Progress and support for Do Not Track in Brussels http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/support_for_do_not_track_bruss els 2 February 2012 by Nick Doty http://npdoty.name * Interview: Opera on the Web of Devices http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/interview_opera_on_the_web_of 1 February 2012 by Ian Jacobs http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-02-11 (11 FEB) Treating JSON as a subset of XML http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2012/02-11-steven-json by Steven Pemberton XML Prague 2012 http://www.xmlprague.cz/2012/ Prague, Czech Republic * 2012-02-12 (12 FEB) ICC Color Management in SVG2 by Chris Lilley OpenIcc &lt; at &gt; FOSDEM http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/Events/Fosdem/2012 Brussels, Belgium * 2012-02-14 (14 FEB) Le Web, plate-forme de convergence des appareils mobiles connectés by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Autour du W3C : nouveaux standards et Web Mobile http://www.inria.fr/centre/lille/agenda/conference-autour-d u-w3c-nouveaux-standards-et-web-mobile Lille, France * 2012-02-27 (27 FEB) Building the Business Case in your Organization by Shawn Henry AccessU at CSUN http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php San Diego, CA, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity? http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk keynote by Ivan Herman The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works hop Luxembourg, Luxembourg W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione * VistaTEC About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Launches Patent Advisory Group for Touch Events Specification 30 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9339 In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to disclosures related to the "Touch Events version 1" Specification. The Web Events Working Group develops this specification. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements. Public comments regarding these disclosures may be sent to public-te-pag&lt; at &gt;w3.org (with public archive). Learn more about Patent Advisory Groups. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/ http://www.w3.org/2012/01/touch-pag-charter http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/ http://www.w3.org/2010/webevents/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except ion http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-te-pag/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except ion Workshop Report: Data and Services Integration 26 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9336 W3C today published the report of the Workshop on Data and Services Integration, hosted on 20-21 October 2011 by MITRE in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. This workshop provided a way for the community to meet and discuss some of the challenges of integration of heterogeneous data and services. With the emergence of the Web, the need for reusing data and services has become even stronger as the number of available services has grown. Different services stacks now exist from Web Services to Cloud-based services. One goal of this workshop was to figure out the needs in the domain of integration that would benefit from standardization, or where discussion via Community or Business Groups could gather a critical mass. http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop/report http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop The participants came to the conclusion that solutions to the data integration issues can be the result of better integration of tools helping going cross-stacks. They also discussed how to architect RESTful services in the enterprise, with a plan to create a group to work on Linked Data Patterns, specifically REST-based patterns on RDF and other formats. Incubator Group Report: Media Analysis Management Interface 25 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9335 The Media Analysis Management Interface Incubator Group published its final report, Media Analysis Management Interface XG Final Report. The Media Analysis Management Interface (MAMI) enables the understanding of the real world at a low cost by using analysis engines such as video image processing engines, sensor data analysis engines, and so on. It also enables various services to be easily provided, such as physical security, environmental load reduction, and intelligent accessibility services. The MAMI Incubator Group described the requirements of the MAMI and six use cases in three fields: energy saving, video surveillance, and operational improvement. The Incubator Group expects to collaborate with other W3C working groups, in particular the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mami/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mami/XGR-mami-20120125/ This publication is part of the Incubator Activity. This work is not on the W3C standards track. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ Group Note: MMI interoperability test report 24 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9334 The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Group Note: "MMI interoperability test report." This document describes an interoperability test, executed by various members of the Multimodal Interaction Working Group, to demonstrate interoperability of multimodal components which are implementing the "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces" specification. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-mmi-interop-20120124/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity Last Call: XML processor profiles 24 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9333 The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "XML processor profiles." This specification defines several XML processor profiles, each of which defines how any given XML document should be processed, both operationally and in terms of what information must be made available to applications. It is intended as a resource for other specifications, which can by a single normative reference establish precisely what input processing they require as well as what information they require. Comments are welcome through 29 February. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xml-proc-profiles-20120124/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ W3C Invites Implementer Feedback on XML Security 2.0 Specifications 24 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9332 The XML Security Working Group invites implementation of three Candidate Recommendations: "XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 2.0," "Canonical XML Version 2.0," and "XML Signature Streaming Profile of XPath 1.0." XML Signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and/or signer authentication services for data of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere. The XML Security 2.0 specifications are designed to update the XML Signature and Canonical XML specifications to improve performance, streaming support, robustness, and reduced attack surface. http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xmldsig-core2-20120124/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xml-c14n2-20120124/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xmldsig-xpath-20120124/ The Working Group has also published a W3C Note: "XML Security RELAX NG Schemas," a document that provides RELAX NG schemas corresponding to the normative XSD schemas for XML Signature 1.1, XML Encryption 1.1, and related specifications. http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xmlsec-rngschema-20110303/ To address patent disclosures related to the XML Signature 1.1 and XML Encryption 1.1 specifications, W3C has chartered a Patent Advisory Group. Concerns related to XML Signature 1.1 may also apply to XML Signature 2.0. http://www.w3.org/2011/xmlsec-pag/ Learn more about the Security Activity. http://www.w3.org/Security/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-01-23 - 2012-01-29 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/01/openweb-weekly-26 30 January 2012 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ * Interview: Motorola on Taking the Web to the Next Level http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/01/interview_motorola_on_taking_t 23 January 2012 by Ian Jacobs http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ * Interview: Financial Times Experience with Web Apps http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/01/interview_financial_times_expe 23 January 2012 by Ian Jacobs http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-02-12 (12 FEB) ICC Color Management in SVG2 by Chris Lilley OpenIcc &lt; at &gt; FOSDEM http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/Events/Fosdem/2012 Brussels, Belgium * 2012-02-14 (14 FEB) Le Web, plate-forme de convergence des appareils mobiles connectés by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Autour du W3C : nouveaux standards et Web Mobile http://www.inria.fr/centre/lille/agenda/conference-autour-d u-w3c-nouveaux-standards-et-web-mobile Lille, France * 2012-02-27 (27 FEB) Building the Business Case in your Organization by Shawn Henry AccessU at CSUN http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php San Diego, CA, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity? http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk keynote by Ivan Herman The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works hop Luxembourg, Luxembourg W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Centre for Next Generation Localisation * Linguaserve * Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd * Tencent * Trinity College Dublin About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- First Drafts of Two Provenance Specifications Published 10 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9314 The Provenance Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts: http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/ * PROV-AQ: Provenance Access and Query which specifies how to use standard Web protocols, including HTTP, to obtain information about the provenance of Web resources. This is part of the larger W3C provenance framework. Provenance refers to the sources of information, such as people and processes, involved in producing or delivering Web documents, data, and resources. * PROV Model Primer which provides an intuitive introduction and guide to the core data model for building representations of the entities, people and processes involved in producing a piece of data or thing in the world. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ W3C Invites Implementations of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces 12 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9319 The Multimodal Interaction Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces." The specification describes a loosely coupled architecture for multimodal user interfaces, which allows for co-resident and distributed implementations, and focuses on the role of markup and scripting, and the use of well defined interfaces between its constituents. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-mmi-arch-20120112/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity Two Drafts Published by the HTML Data Task Force 12 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9318 The HTML Data Task Force of the Semantic Web Interest Group has published two documents today: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Html-data-tf http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/ * The HTML Data Guide aims to help publishers and consumers of HTML data. With several syntaxes (microformats, microdata, RDFa) and vocabularies (schema.org, Dublin Core, microformat vocabularies, etc.) to choose from, it provides guidance on deciding what to choose in a way that meets the publisher's or consumer's needs. * The Microdata to RDF describes processing rules that may be used to extract RDF from an HTML document containing microdata. Both documents are Working Drafts, with the goal of publishing a final version as Interest Group Notes. Comments and feedbacks are welcome; please send them to the public-html-data-tf&lt; at &gt;w3.org mailing list. mailto:public-html-data-tf&lt; at &gt;w3.org Last Call: CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3 12 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9317 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3." CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This module contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to the &lt;image&gt; type and replaced elements. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2 are the generalization of the &lt;url&gt; type to the &lt;image&gt; type, several additions to the ‘&lt;image&gt;’ type, a generic sizing algorithm for images and other replaced content in CSS, and several properties controlling the interaction of replaced elements and CSS's layout models. Comments are welcome through 07 February. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-images-20120112/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group Participants 11 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9316 The W3C Advisory Committee has elected Robin Berjon (unaffiliated) and re-elected Henry Thompson (U. of Edinburgh) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). W3C Director and TAG co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee also re-appointed Noah Mendelsohn (unaffiliated) and Jonathan Rees (Creative Commons). They join continuing participants Peter Linss (HP), Ashok Malhotra (Oracle), Larry Masinter (Adobe), and Jeni Tennison (unaffiliated). Many thanks to Dan Appelquist whose term ends this month. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. Read the TAG's December 2011 finding Identifying Application State and learn more about their public work plan. http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ http://www.w3.org/2004/10/27-tag-charter.html#Mission http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/IdentifyingApplicationState http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/ Last Call: WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide 10 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9315 The Protocols and Formats Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide." This document describes how user agents should support keyboard navigation and respond to roles, states, and properties provided in Web content via WAI-ARIA. These features are used by authors creating accessible rich internet applications. Users often access the content using assistive technologies that rely on platform accessibility APIs to obtain and interact with information from the page. The WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide defines how implementations should expose content to accessibility APIs, helping to ensure that this information appears in a manner consistent with author intent. This document is part of the WAI-ARIA suite described in the WAI-ARIA Overview. Comments are welcome through 17 February. Learn more about the WAI Technical Activity. http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20120110/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/Technical/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-12-12 - 2012-01-15 http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/01/openweb-weekly-24 16 January 2012 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ * Social Business: Final Report Published with Next Steps for the W3C http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/01/social_business_final_report_p 16 January 2012 by Harry Halpin http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin Upcoming Talks * 2012-02-12 (12 FEB) ICC Color Management in SVG2 by Chris Lilley OpenIcc &lt; at &gt; FOSDEM http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/Events/Fosdem/2012 Brussels, Belgium * 2012-02-27 (27 FEB) Building the Business Case in your Organization by Shawn Henry AccessU at CSUN http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php San Diego, CA, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-13 (13 MAR) Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms, standards, and tools by Deborah Dahl Mobile Voice 2012 http://mobilevoiceconference.com/ San Francisco, USA * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity? http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk keynote by Ivan Herman The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works hop Luxembourg, Luxembourg W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * Cocomore AG * eMagenationStudios * University of Limerick About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? Write the W3C Communications Team (w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org). http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120116 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/latest http://www.w3.org/Press/ mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Subscribe mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Unsubscribe mailto:w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-01-16T22:39:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/424 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-01-09 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120109 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Register for Mobile Web Best Practices Course; Early Bird Rate Ends 9 January 06 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9313 We invite you to register for the W3C Mobile Web and Application Best Practices (MWABP) course. Register by 9 January and save 60 Euros. This is the third edition of this online course, which begins 30 January for 8 weeks. Developed by the W3C/MobiWebApp team, this course will be taught by Frances de Waal and Phil Archer. Participants spend an average of 4-6 hours per week on the course material and assignments. Read the past students' feedback and find out more about the course. http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=14 http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ Last Call: Five SPARQL 1.1 Drafts 05 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9312 The SPARQL Working Group has published (second) Last Call Working Drafts of the following SPARQL 1.1 documents. SPARQL is a set of specfications related to querying a web of linked data. Today's publications http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Main_Page * SPARQL 1.1 Update defines an update language for RDF graphs. * SPARQL 1.1 Service Description defines a vocabulary and discovery mechanism for describing the capabilities of a SPARQL endpoint. * SPARQL 1.1 Query Language adds support for aggregates, subqueries, projected expressions, and negation to the SPARQL query language. * SPARQL 1.1 Protocol describes a means for conveying SPARQL queries and updates to a SPARQL processing service and returning the results via HTTP to the entity that requested them. * SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes defines conditions under which SPARQL queries can be used with entailment regimes such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, or RIF. Review comments welcome through 6 February. Learn more about the Semantic Web and Linked Data. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ DOM4 Draft Published 05 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9311 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of "DOM4." DOM4 defines the event and document model the Web platform uses. The DOM is a language- and platform-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of documents. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-dom-20120105 http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Last Call for Two XML Encryption 1.1 Specifications; Related Drafts Published 05 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9310 The XML Security Working Group has published a new Last Call Working Draft of " "XML Encryption 1.1" " to solicit review of changes since the previous Candidate Recommendation. The primary changes are to (1) make the AES-128-GCM algorithm mandatory to implement, to address newly publicized chosen-ciphertext attacks against the CBC class of algorithms, (2) add new security considerations related to chosen-ciphertext attacks, timing attacks, CBC block encryption vulnerabilities, and the insecure use of error messages, (3) add a new algorithm for the RSA-OAEP key transport that does not require SHA-1 with the mask generation function, enabling use of various hash MGF combinations. http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xmlenc-core1-20120105/ The XML Security WG is also soliciting review of the Last Call working draft of " "XML Encryption 1.1 CipherReference Processing using 2.0 Transforms" ". This specification brings the simplification benefits of the ongoing XML Security 2.0 effort to XML Encryption CipherReference transform processing. Feedback on both of these Last Call drafts is requested by 16 February 2012. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xmlenc-transform20-20120105/ The Working Group also published today First Public Working Drafts of " "Test Cases for XML Encryption 1.1" " and " "Test Cases for Canonical XML 2.0" " and encourages community participation in developing further tests and performing testing. In addition, they updated " "XML Security Algorithm Cross-Reference" " to reflect new algorithm definitions in XML Encryption 1.1. Learn more about the W3C Security Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xmlenc-core1-testcases-20120105/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xml-c14n2-testcases-20120105/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xmlsec-algorithms-20120105/ http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity Updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 03 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9309 The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group today published updates of two Notes that accompany WCAG 2.0: "Techniques for WCAG 2.0" and "Understanding WCAG 2.0." (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a stable document.) To learn more about WCAG Techniques and about contributing to future updates, see the WCAG Techniques Updated - Learn about the informative guidance blog post. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20120103/ http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/01/wcag_techniques_learn_more http://www.w3.org/WAI/ First Draft of Media Accessibility User Requirements Published 03 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9308 The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) today published a First Public Working Draft of "Media Accessibility User Requirements" that describes the accessibility requirements of people with disabilities with respect to audio and video on the Web, particularly in the context of HTML5. Learn more from the call for review email and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF http://www.w3.org/TR/media-accessibility-reqs http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012JanMar/0001 http://www.w3.org/WAI/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * WCAG Techniques Updated - Learn about the informative guidance http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/01/wcag_techniques_learn_more 3 January 2012 by Shawn Henry http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/ * W3C TAG Publishes Finding on Identifying Application State http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/w3c_tag_publishes_finding_on_i 24 December 2011 by Ashok Malhotra Upcoming Talks * 2012-01-12 (12 JAN) HTML5, connecting devices keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Día W3C en España http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2012/DiaW3C/ Granada, Spain * 2012-01-12 (12 JAN) ICC Color Management in SVG2 by Chris Lilley OpenIcc &lt; at &gt; FOSDEM http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/Events/Fosdem/2012 Brussels, Belgium * 2012-01-12 (12 JAN) New features in SVG2 - WebFonts, Advanced Gradients, and more by Chris Lilley Web Directions SVG Social http://svgsocial.eventbrite.com/ Surry Hills, NSW, Australia * 2012-01-12 (12 JAN) Transforming the Web Together http://www.w3c.nl/Talks/2012_NewYear.pdf by Fons Kuijk 2012 Internet New Years Event http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/2012/www.isoc.nl/active /2012-nieuwjaar.htm Amsterdam, The Netherlands * 2012-02-27 (27 FEB) Building the Business Case in your Organization by Shawn Henry AccessU at CSUN http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php San Diego, CA, USA W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * AdTruth * BarrierBreak Technologies * Chapell &amp; Associates * ENLASO Corporation * Future of Privacy Forum * Lucy Software and Services GmbH * Moravia Worldwide * MovieLabs * NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) * Telenor * UCWEB * University of Economics, Prague * Verisign, Inc. About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? Write the W3C Communications Team (w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org). http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120109 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/latest http://www.w3.org/Press/ mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Subscribe mailto:w3c-announce-request&lt; at &gt;w3.org?subject=Unsubscribe mailto:w3t-comm&lt; at &gt;w3.org </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-01-10T03:30:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/424 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-01-09 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120109 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Register for Mobile Web Best Practices Course; Early Bird Rate Ends 9 January 06 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9313 We invite you to register for the W3C Mobile Web and Application Best Practices (MWABP) course. Register by 9 January and save 60 Euros. This is the third edition of this online course, which begins 30 January for 8 weeks. Developed by the W3C/MobiWebApp team, this course will be taught by Frances de Waal and Phil Archer. Participants spend an average of 4-6 hours per week on the course material and assignments. Read the past students' feedback and find out more about the course. http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=14 http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ Last Call: Five SPARQL 1.1 Drafts 05 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9312 The SPARQL Working Group has published (second) Last Call Working Drafts of the following SPARQL 1.1 documents. SPARQL is a set of specfications related to querying a web of linked data. Today's publications http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Main_Page * SPARQL 1.1 Update defines an update language for RDF graphs. * SPARQL 1.1 Service Description defines a vocabulary and discovery mechanism for describing the capabilities of a SPARQL endpoint. * SPARQL 1.1 Query Language adds support for aggregates, subqueries, projected expressions, and negation to the SPARQL query language. * SPARQL 1.1 Protocol describes a means for conveying SPARQL queries and updates to a SPARQL processing service and returning the results via HTTP to the entity that requested them. * SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes defines conditions under which SPARQL queries can be used with entailment regimes such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, or RIF. Review comments welcome through 6 February. Learn more about the Semantic Web and Linked Data. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ DOM4 Draft Published 05 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9311 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of "DOM4." DOM4 defines the event and document model the Web platform uses. The DOM is a language- and platform-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of documents. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-dom-20120105 http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Last Call for Two XML Encryption 1.1 Specifications; Related Drafts Published 05 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9310 The XML Security Working Group has published a new Last Call Working Draft of " "XML Encryption 1.1" " to solicit review of changes since the previous Candidate Recommendation. The primary changes are to (1) make the AES-128-GCM algorithm mandatory to implement, to address newly publicized chosen-ciphertext attacks against the CBC class of algorithms, (2) add new security considerations related to chosen-ciphertext attacks, timing attacks, CBC block encryption vulnerabilities, and the insecure use of error messages, (3) add a new algorithm for the RSA-OAEP key transport that does not require SHA-1 with the mask generation function, enabling use of various hash MGF combinations. http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xmlenc-core1-20120105/ The XML Security WG is also soliciting review of the Last Call working draft of " "XML Encryption 1.1 CipherReference Processing using 2.0 Transforms" ". This specification brings the simplification benefits of the ongoing XML Security 2.0 effort to XML Encryption CipherReference transform processing. Feedback on both of these Last Call drafts is requested by 16 February 2012. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xmlenc-transform20-20120105/ The Working Group also published today First Public Working Drafts of " "Test Cases for XML Encryption 1.1" " and " "Test Cases for Canonical XML 2.0" " and encourages community participation in developing further tests and performing testing. In addition, they updated " "XML Security Algorithm Cross-Reference" " to reflect new algorithm definitions in XML Encryption 1.1. Learn more about the W3C Security Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xmlenc-core1-testcases-20120105/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xml-c14n2-testcases-20120105/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xmlsec-algorithms-20120105/ http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity Updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 03 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9309 The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group today published updates of two Notes that accompany WCAG 2.0: "Techniques for WCAG 2.0" and "Understanding WCAG 2.0." (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a stable document.) To learn more about WCAG Techniques and about contributing to future updates, see the WCAG Techniques Updated - Learn about the informative guidance blog post. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20120103/ http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/01/wcag_techniques_learn_more http://www.w3.org/WAI/ First Draft of Media Accessibility User Requirements Published 03 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9308 The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) today published a First Public Working Draft of "Media Accessibility User Requirements" that describes the accessibility requirements of people with disabilities with respect to audio and video on the Web, particularly in the context of HTML5. Learn more from the call for review email and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF http://www.w3.org/TR/media-accessibility-reqs http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012JanMar/0001 http://www.w3.org/WAI/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * WCAG Techniques Updated - Learn about the informative guidance http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/01/wcag_techniques_learn_more 3 January 2012 by Shawn Henry http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/ * W3C TAG Publishes Finding on Identifying Application State http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/w3c_tag_publishes_finding_on_i 24 December 2011 by Ashok Malhotra Upcoming Talks * 2012-01-12 (12 JAN) HTML5, connecting devices keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Día W3C en España http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2012/DiaW3C/ Granada, Spain * 2012-01-12 (12 JAN) ICC Color Management in SVG2 by Chris Lilley OpenIcc &lt; at &gt; FOSDEM http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/Events/Fosdem/2012 Brussels, Belgium * 2012-01-12 (12 JAN) New features in SVG2 - WebFonts, Advanced Gradients, and more by Chris Lilley Web Directions SVG Social http://svgsocial.eventbrite.com/ Surry Hills, NSW, Australia * 2012-01-12 (12 JAN) Transforming the Web Together http://www.w3c.nl/Talks/2012_NewYear.pdf by Fons Kuijk 2012 Internet New Years Event http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/2012/www.isoc.nl/active /2012-nieuwjaar.htm Amsterdam, The Netherlands * 2012-02-27 (27 FEB) Building the Business Case in your Organization by Shawn Henry AccessU at CSUN http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php San Diego, CA, USA W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * AdTruth * BarrierBreak Technologies * Chapell &amp; Associates * ENLASO Corporation * Future of Privacy Forum * Lucy Software and Services GmbH * Moravia Worldwide * MovieLabs * NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) * Telenor * UCWEB * University of Economics, Prague * Verisign, Inc. About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Seven Web Services Specifications are Recommendations 13 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9295 W3C is pleased to announce the publication of seven Web Services specifications from the Web Services Resource Access Working Group: "Enumeration (WS-Enumeration)," "Event Descriptions (WS-EventDescriptions)," "Eventing (WS-Eventing)" , "Fragment (WS-Fragment)," "Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange)," "SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions)" , and "Transfer (WS-Transfer)." Together, these specifications are designed to be composed with each other to provide a rich set of tools for the Web Services environment. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-enumeration-20110927/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-event-descriptions-20110927/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-eventing-20110927/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-fragment-20110927/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-metadata-exchange-20110927/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-soap-assertions-20110927/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-transfer-20110927/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ First Drafts of Three Audio API Specifications Published 15 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9302 The Audio Working Group has published three First Public Working Drafts to provide an advanced audio API for the Web: http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/ * the Web Audio API and MediaStream Processing API specifications each define a different approach to process and synthesize audio streams directly in script. These APIs can be used for interactive applications, games, 3D environments, musical applications, educational applications, and for the purposes of accessibility. They include the ability to synchronize, visualize, or enhance sound information when used in conjunction with graphics APIs. * Audio Processing API introduces and compares two client-side APIs for processing and synthesizing real-time audio streams in the browser. Read the blog post Sounding Out the Audio APIs for more information about the possibilities unlocked by an audio API, and learn more about the Rich Web Clients Activity. http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/sounding_out_the_audio_apis http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity Drafts Updated for XHTML+RDFa 1.1 and RDFa Core 1.1 15 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9301 The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of "RDFa Core 1.1," a specification for attributes to express structured data in any markup language. The group also published an update to "XHTML+RDFa 1.1," a Host Language for RDFa Core 1.1. This document is intended for authors who want to create XHTML Family documents that embed rich semantic markup. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdfa-core-20111215/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xhtml-rdfa-20111215/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation Draft Published 15 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9300 The Provenance Working Group has published a Working Draft of "The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation." Provenance of information is crucial in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it should be integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to give credit to its originators when reusing it. In an open and inclusive environment such as the Web, users find information that is often contradictory or questionable: provenance can help those users to make trust judgments. PROV-DM is a data model for provenance for building representations of the entities, people and activities involved in producing a piece of data or thing in the world. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-dm-20111215/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ CSS 2D Transforms Updated 15 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9299 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of "CSS 2D Transforms." CSS 2D Transforms allows elements rendered by CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional space. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-2d-transforms-20111215/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ W3C Invites Implementations of Touch Events version 1 15 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9298 The Web Events Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "Touch Events version 1." The Touch Events specification defines a set of low-level events that represent one or more points of contact with a touch-sensitive surface, and changes of those points with respect to the surface and any DOM elements displayed upon it (e.g., for touch screens) or associated with it (e.g. for drawing tablets without displays). Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2010/webevents/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-touch-events-20111215/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ XPath, XQuery 3.0 Last Call Drafts Published; First Drafts of XPath Full Text and XQuery Update 15 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9297 The XML Query Working Group and the XSLT Working Group have jointly published Last Call Working Drafts of "XPath 3.0" and supporting specifications, together with a First Public Working Draft of "Full Text 3.0" ; the XQuery Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts for "XQuery 3.0" and "XQueryX 3.0," and also a First Public Working Draft for "XQuery Update 3.0." XPath is a widely-used language for querying and selecting from XML documents or other structure; XQuery and XQueryX are query languages for operating on single XML documents, document collections, relational databases and other data sources. Learn more about XML technology. http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/ http://www.w3.org/XML/XSLT http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-30-20111213/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-full-text-30-20111213/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xquery-30-20111213/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xqueryx-30-20111213/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xquery-update-30-20111213/ http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/ Registration for W3C Online Course on Mobile Web; Early Bird Registration Through 9 January 13 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9296 W3C is pleased to announce that registration is now open for a third edition of the most popular W3C online training course, W3C Introduction to Mobile Web and Application Best Practices.The 8-week course begins 30 January 2012. Developed by the W3C/MobiWebApp team, the course familiarizes Web designers and content producers with the Web as delivered on mobile devices. Along with the course description, read comments from past students and what they have achieved. An early bird rate of €165 is available until 9 January 2012; after that date the full price is €225. Don't miss the early bird rate - enroll now! http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=14 http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.mobiwebapp.eu/ http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=14 Two Widgets Specifications Published: Widget Access Request Policy; Widget Interface 13 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9294 The Web Applications Working Group published two Widgets specifications today: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ * A Candidate Recommendation of Widget Interface, which defines an application programming interface (API) for widgets that provides, among other things, functionality for accessing a widget's metadata and persistently storing data. W3C invites implementation of this specification; see the ongoing implementation report. * A Proposed Recommendation of Widget Access Request Policy, which defines the security model controlling network access from within a widget, as well as a method for authors to request that the user agent grant access to certain network resources. Comments are welcome through 17 January 2012. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ First Draft of CSS Exclusions and Shapes Module Level 3 Published 13 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9293 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "CSS Exclusions and Shapes Module Level 3." CSS exclusions define arbitrary areas around which inline content can flow. Unlike CSS floats, which they extend, CSS exclusions can be positioned with any CSS positioning schemes. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-exclusions-20111213/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ First Draft Published of The PROV Ontology: Model and Formal Semantics 13 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9292 The Provenance Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "The PROV Ontology: Model and Formal Semantics." The PROV Ontology (also PROV-O) encodes the PROV Data Model [PROV-DM] in the OWL2 Web Ontology Language (OWL2). The PROV ontology consists of a set of classes, properties, and restrictions that can be used to represent provenance information. The PROV ontology can also be specialized to create new classes and properties for modeling provenance information specific to different domain applications. The PROV ontology supports a set of entailments based on OWL2 formal semantics and provenance specific inference rules. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-o-20111213/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * Sounding Out the Audio APIs http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/sounding_out_the_audio_apis 15 December 2011 by Doug Schepers http://schepers.cc/ * Interview: Pearson Company on Open Web Platform and Publishing http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/interview_pearson_company_on_o 15 December 2011 by Ian Jacobs http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-12-05 - 2011-12-11 http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/open_web_platform_weekly_summa 12 December 2011 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ Upcoming Talks * 2012-01-12 (12 JAN) HTML5, connecting devices keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Día W3C en España http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2012/DiaW3C/ Granada, Spain W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup New Members * NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) About W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop "Web standards." Read about W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ Receiving the Newsletter Bookmark this edition or the latest Public Newsletter and see past issues and press releases. Subscribe to receive the Public Newsletter by email. If you no longer wish to receive the Newsletter, send us an unsubscribe email. Comments? 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Invites Implementations of The WebSocket API, Web Storage 08 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9287 The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ * The WebSocket API, which defines an API that enables Web pages to use the WebSocket protocol for two-way communication with a remote host. * Web Storage, which defines an API for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ W3C Workshop: The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead 09 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9289 W3C announces today the fourth in a series of workshops to ensure the multilingual success of the World Wide Web: The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead, 15 - 16 March 2012, Luxembourg, hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. The event is co-located with the European Commission's Language Technology Showcase Days. Anyone may attend and participation is free. W3C welcomes participation from both speakers and non-speaking attendees, but the total number of participants is limited due to space. http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop/lux embourg-cfp http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/whoweare/ Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. We are particularly interested in speakers who can identify gaps in current standards and best practices related to the mutilingual Web, and propose opportunities for addressing those. Registration is available online. http://multilingualweb.eu/documents http://www.multilingualweb.eu/register RDFa Lite 1.1 Draft Published; RDFa 1.1 Primer Updated 08 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9288 The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft for "RDFa Lite 1.1" and an updated Working Draft for the "RDFa 1.1 Primer." http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/ http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-lite/ http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-primer/ One critique of RDFa is that is has too much functionality, leaving first-time authors confused about the more advanced features. RDFa Lite is a minimalist version of RDFa that helps authors easily jump into the structured data world. The goal was to outline a small subset of RDFa that will work for 80% of the Web authors out there doing simple data markup. The RDFa Primer is a more in-depth introduction to RDFa and all of the structured data markup features that it provides. The release of these two documents as Working Drafts is an open invitation to the general public to review and provide feedback on the direction of these documents via the RDF Web Applications Working Group mailing list. These documents are intended to be the last Working drafts before RDFa enters Last Call. You can learn more about similar projects to RDFa in W3C's Semantic Web Activity. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/ http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ Call for Review: SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0 Proposed Recommendation Published 08 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9286 The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0." The work described in this and related documents is aimed at a set of standards for the transport of SOAP messages over JMS [Java Message Service]. The main purpose is to ensure interoperability between the implementations of different Web services vendors. This will also enable customers to implement their own Web services for part of their infrastructure, and to have this interoperate with vendor provided Web services. Comments are welcome through 13 January. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/soapjms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-soapjms-20111208/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ Incubator Group Report: HTML Speech XG Final Report 06 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9285 The W3C HTML Speech Incubator Group has published their final report. This report provides use cases, requirements derived from those use cases and prioritized, and the following proposals: a JavaScript API for use of ASR services, a new &lt;reco&gt; html element that can be linked to the JS ASR API, a new &lt;tts&gt; html element for use of TTS services, and a protocol for how Web User Agents such as web browsers would communicate with ASR and TTS services other than the default ones provided by the Web User Agent. While the group has made astonishing progress in its goals, the proposals are far from being complete, Recommendation-level standards. The Incubator Group expects that the contents of this report will be used as the beginning of standards-track work in one or more W3C Working Groups and/or that of other Standards Development Organizations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/XGR-htmlspeech/ This publication is part of the Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment. This work is not on the W3C standards track. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ Report: Status and Roadmap of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile 06 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9284 [] W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile , an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context. http://www.w3.org/2011/11/mobile-web-app-state http://www.w3.org/2011/11/mobile-web-app-state A deliverable of the MobiWebApp project, this fourth edition of the document highlights changes since August 2011, including several new specifications in development at W3C ( "Web Real Time communications," "Geolocation v2," "vibration API" ), progress on many others, and new links to resources on mobile accessibility. http://mobiwebapp.eu/ http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/ http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API-v2/ http://www.w3.org/TR/vibration/ The next edition of the document is scheduled for February 2012, in time for Mobile World Congress. W3C invites attendees to visit W3C's booth (Hall 2, 2A31) to learn more about these technologies and how they are transforming the mobile industry. Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices. http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3 Draft Published 06 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9283 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of "CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3." In CSS Levels 1 and 2, image values, such as those used in the 'background-image' property, could only be given by a single URI value. This module introduces additional ways of representing 2-dimensional images, for example as a list of URIs denoting fallbacks, as a reference to an element in the document, or as a gradient. This module also defines several properties for manipulating raster images and for sizing or positioning replaced elements such as images within the box determined by the CSS layout algorithms. It also defines in a generic way CSS's sizing algorithm for images and other replaced elements. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-images-20111206/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ Indexed Database API Draft Published 06 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9282 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Indexed Database API." This document defines APIs for a database of records holding simple values and hierarchical objects. User agents need to store large numbers of objects locally in order to satisfy off-line data requirements of Web applications. The Web Storage specification is useful for storing pairs of keys and their corresponding values. However, it does not provide in-order retrieval of keys, efficient searching over values, or storage of duplicate values for a key. Indexed Database API makes it possible to perform advanced key-value data management that is at the heart of most sophisticated query processors. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-IndexedDB-20111206/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR) The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop /luxembourg-cfp Luxembourg Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid, Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. http://multilingualweb.eu/ W3C Blog * Web and TV IG note on Home Networking Scenarios published http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/web_and_tv_ig_note_on_home_net 12 December 2011 by Giuseppe Pascale http://operabuffa.wordpress.com/ * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-29 - 2011-12-04 http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/openweb-weekly-22 5 December 2011 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ Upcoming Talks * 2011-12-18 (18 DEC) HTML5 File API, File System API + NPAPI by Nir Geier Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and HTML5 communication http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel * 2011-12-18 (18 DEC) Review of new W3C technologies by Eyal Sela Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and HTML5 communication http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel * 2011-12-18 (18 DEC) Server-Client communication in HTML5 by Zohar Arad Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and HTML5 communication http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel * 2011-12-18 (18 DEC) Communicating between iframes using HTML5 postMessage by Roee Sarusi Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and HTML5 communication http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. 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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Call for Review: Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 Proposed Recommendation Published 29 November 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9274 The Media Annotations Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Ontology for Media Resources 1.0." This document defines the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0. The term "Ontology" is used in its broadest possible definition: a core vocabulary. The intent of this vocabulary is to bridge the different descriptions of media resources, and provide a core set of descriptive properties. This document defines a core set of metadata properties for media resources, along with their mappings to elements from a set of existing metadata formats. Besides that, the document presents a Semantic Web compatible implementation of the abstract ontology using RDF/OWL. The document is mostly targeted towards media resources available on the Web, as opposed to media resources that are only accessible in local repositories. Comments are welcome through 31 December. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-mediaont-10-20111129/ http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/ W3C Invites Implementations of Media Fragments URI 1.0 01 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9280 The Media Fragments Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "Media Fragments URI 1.0." Audio and video resources on the World Wide Web are currently treated as "foreign" objects, which can only be embedded using a plugin that is capable of decoding and interacting with the media resource. Specific media servers are generally required to provide for server-side features such as direct access to time offsets into a video without the need to retrieve the entire resource. Support for such media fragment access varies between different media formats and inhibits standard means of dealing with such content on the Web. This specification provides for a media-format independent, standard means of addressing media fragments on the Web using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). The Working Group also published today the first draft of a companion document, "Protocol for Media Fragments 1.0 Resolution in HTTP," which describes various recipes for processing media fragments URI when used over the HTTP protocol. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-media-frags-20111201/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-media-frags-recipes-20111201/ http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/ Last Calls: Geolocation API Specification Level 2; DeviceOrientation Event 01 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9279 The Geolocation Working Group has published two Last Call Working Drafts: "Geolocation API Specification Level 2" and "DeviceOrientation Event Specification." The former defines a high-level interface to location information associated only with the device hosting the implementation, such as latitude and longitude. The API itself is agnostic of the underlying location information sources. Common sources of location information include Global Positioning System (GPS) and location inferred from network signals such as IP address, RFID, WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses, and GSM/CDMA cell IDs, as well as user input. http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-geolocation-API-v2-20111201 http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-orientation-event-20111201/ The DeviceOrientation Event Specification defines several new DOM events that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a hosting device. Comments are welcome on both specifications through 15 January. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ Content Security Policy Draft Published 01 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9278 The Web Application Security Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "Content Security Policy." This document defines Content Security Policy, a mechanism web applications can use to mitigate the broad class of content injection vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting (XSS). Content Security Policy is a declarative policy that lets the authors (or server administrators) of a web application restrict from where the application can load resources. Learn more about the Security Activity. http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-CSP-20111129/ http://www.w3.org/Security/ Interest Group Note: Requirements for Home Networking Scenarios 01 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9277 The Web and TV Interest Group published today an Interest Group Note of "Requirements for Home Networking Scenarios." This document lists the design goals and requirements that potential W3C recommendations should support in order to enable access to services and content provided by home network devices on other devices, including the discovery and playback of content available to those devices, both from services such as traditional broadcast media and internet based services but also from the home network. Learn more about Web and TV. http://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-hnreq-20111201/ http://www.w3.org/standards/webofdevices/tv CSS Specifications Updated: Flexible Box Layout, CSS Template, Regions, Paged Media 29 November 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9273 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published four Working Drafts: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members * CSS Flexible Box Layout Module, which describes a CSS box model optimized for user interface design. In flexbox layout model, the children of a box are laid out either horizontally or vertically, and unused space can be assigned to a particular child or distributed among the children by assignment of "flex" to the children that should expand. Nesting of these boxes (horizontal inside vertical, or vertical inside horizontal) can be used to build layouts in two dimensions. * CSS Template Layout Module, which contains CSS features to describe layouts at a high level, meant for tasks such as the positioning and alignment of "widgets" in a graphical user interface or the layout grid for a page or a window. * CSS Regions Module Level 3, which allows content to flow across multiple areas called regions. The regions are not necessarily contiguous in the document order. The CSS regions module provides an advanced content flow mechanism, which can be combined with positioning schemes as defined by other CSS modules such as the Multi-Column Module or the Grid Layout Module to position the regions where content flows. * CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module, describes features often used in printed publications. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/ Updated Requirements for Japanese Text Layout Draft Published 29 November 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9272 W3C has published a second version of "Requirements for Japanese Text Layout," which describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG, XSL-FO and eBook standards. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051, however, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. This second version of the document contains a significant amount of additional information related to hanmen design, such as handling headings, placement of illustrations and tables, handling of notes and reference marks, etc. This document was developed by participants in the Japanese Layout Task Force, with input from four W3C Working Groups: CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL. A "Japanese version" is also available. http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-jlreq-20111129/ http://www.w3.org/2007/02/japanese-layout/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-jlreq-20111129/ja/ Last Call: Battery Status API 29 November 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9271 The Device APIs Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Battery Status API." The Battery Status API specification defines a means for web developers to programmatically determine the battery status of the hosting device. Without knowing the battery status of a device, a web developer must design the web application with an assumption of sufficient battery level for the task at hand. This means the battery of a device may exhaust faster than desired because web developers are unable to make decisions based on the battery status. Given knowledge of the battery status, web developers are able to craft web content and applications which are power-efficient, thereby leading to improved user experience. Comments are welcome through 20 December. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-battery-status-20111129/ http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ Patent Advisory Group Recommends Continuing Work on Widgets Access Request Policy 28 November 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9270 The Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for the Web Applications Working Group has published a report recommending that W3C continue work on the "Widgets Access Request Policy Specification" without changes. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements. See the original announcement of the PAG. http://www.w3.org/2009/11/widgets-pag/ http://www.w3.org/2009/11/widgets-pag/pagreport http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-access/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except ion http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF http://www.w3.org/News/2009.html#entry-8662 More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2011-12-06 ( 6 DEC) – 2011-12-07 ( 7 DEC) Linked Enterprise Data Patterns: Data-driven Applications on the Web http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/ Cambridge, MA, USA Hosted by W3C/MIT Linked Data technology also offers a huge potential for enterprise applications, e.g., for the integration and the management of data within and across enterprises. The distributed nature of Linked Data enables loose-coupling for data sharing within and between organizations. With Linked Data, enterprises have a unique opportunity to cooperate in their use of shared data without the costs of extensive coordination. Sharing a common data model (RDF) allows us to establish design patterns for providing dereferencable resource identifiers, migrating and cloning data as business needs and data authorities evolve. These will address issues such as data distribution, query federation, access control, encryption and signature, legal problems around the access of datasets and business models in using open or closed linked data. Please join the W3C Linked Data community at this workshop to air requirements, share solutions and develop a healthy and scalable Linked Enterprise Data infrastructure. W3C Blog * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-29 - 2011-12-04 http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/openweb-weekly-22 5 December 2011 by Karl Dubost http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/ * Ben Schwarz joins CSSWG http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/11/ben_schwarz_joining_csswg 30 November 2011 by Ben Schwarz * Interview: Roger Cutler on W3C and Chevron use of Semantic Web Technology http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/11/interview_roger_cutler_on_w3c 28 November 2011 by Ian Jacobs http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Upcoming Talks * 2011-12-05 (5 DEC) "International Panel on Policies and Programs to Promote Accessible and Assistive Mobile Services for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities" and "Designing Accessible Mobile Websites and Accessible Mobile Apps" panel features Judy Brewer M-Enabling Summit http://www.m-enabling.com/ Washington, DC, USA * 2011-12-08 (8 DEC) Domain names and persistence: a view from eGov by Phil Archer IDCC11 Workshop: Domain names and persistence http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/idcc_workshop Bristol, United Kingdom * 2011-12-18 (18 DEC) Server-Client communication in HTML5 by Zohar Arad Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and HTML5 communication http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel * 2011-12-18 (18 DEC) Review of new W3C technologies by Eyal Sela Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and HTML5 communication http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel * 2011-12-18 (18 DEC) HTML5 File API, File System API + NPAPI by Nir Geier Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and HTML5 communication http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel * 2011-12-18 (18 DEC) Communicating between iframes using HTML5 postMessage by Roee Sarusi Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and HTML5 communication http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. 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